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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3719119" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>One of the amenities at the RV park we are at is a Lapidary shop, free to use after a training session.</p><p>Since Arizona has no shortage of rocks, I thought learning to work with rocks might be interesting.</p><p>Completed the first project today with about 13 hours of time building stone handles for a 440C stainless fillet knife blank.</p><p>It starts with finding a cool rock and slabbing it out.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]250079[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>After tracing the outline and doing rough cutting with a tile saw, you move to various diamond coated wheels of different grits to start the finishing process.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]250080[/ATTACH]</p><p>After more hours of shaping and final polishing you get the finished project.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]250081[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]250082[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]250083[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]250084[/ATTACH]</p><p>It’s called blood stone because of the color. The rock I found in the Superstition Mountains has fossils in it which are the white spots.</p><p>This knife will be a gift to my son, so tomorrow will start on my knife.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]250085[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3719119, member: 5412"] One of the amenities at the RV park we are at is a Lapidary shop, free to use after a training session. Since Arizona has no shortage of rocks, I thought learning to work with rocks might be interesting. Completed the first project today with about 13 hours of time building stone handles for a 440C stainless fillet knife blank. It starts with finding a cool rock and slabbing it out. [ATTACH type="full" alt="CEF3C326-FA49-4286-91EF-7E74815A5F86.jpeg"]250079[/ATTACH] After tracing the outline and doing rough cutting with a tile saw, you move to various diamond coated wheels of different grits to start the finishing process. [ATTACH type="full" alt="A131FD95-2A1A-400F-902E-5DCDF5C237F9.jpeg"]250080[/ATTACH] After more hours of shaping and final polishing you get the finished project. [ATTACH type="full" alt="3E526AF6-D372-4407-9416-032B3023364C.jpeg"]250081[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="C7B9D6C0-4C35-4B26-8FBC-EEFDF7A84B14.jpeg"]250082[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="1FC4D7EA-8E2A-42FF-AFF8-FEDEFA0EF064.jpeg"]250083[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="9F3905C8-9967-4040-BCD6-4F9C33E6B7DB.jpeg"]250084[/ATTACH] It’s called blood stone because of the color. The rock I found in the Superstition Mountains has fossils in it which are the white spots. This knife will be a gift to my son, so tomorrow will start on my knife. [ATTACH type="full" alt="88667D23-6C55-48A8-833A-B80158471A02.jpeg"]250085[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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