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Screwing

18/5/2016

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I was building my son a little house in the garden when it came to me....
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I was looking at a snail shell listening to a song in my head ‘...on the bus go round and round’. I had a screw in one hand and thought - “hmmm, I wonder?...”
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As soon as I got into the workshop I grabbed a piece of hardwood and a box of high quality screws and started driving them in, until the wood could take no more!
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I put the now quite heavy wood into the vice and chopped off all the ends with the old angle grinder. 
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Up till this point this project cost me very little. Then I tried to shape the handle. Turns out steel screws are really quite hard. In the end I chopped it into shape with the angle grinder but it started smoking! You can see the blackened wood below...
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Blades and belts were quickly destroyed - £50 worth  - then sanding it took a couple of days. The screws get woodburning hot, fast, so it all needed plenty of time to cool down. 
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But here she is, a proper one off as I won't be making another in a hurry! I really like the olive bolster with the black denim micarta.
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I always say a knife is the perfect combination of practical and beautiful. Screws in one hand, electric screwdriver in the other and you can build a lot with wood. Seldom has the beauty of this modern wonder been explored. I have tried to keep the organic inspiration of the snail shell whilst letting the bold lines of the screws compliment the subtle grain of the wood.
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This knife will be up for sale with a couple of others on this Friday's Knife Wall at Noon.
1 Comment
Nigel Tolley
26/6/2017 08:57:33 am

Lovely work.
I suggest you use a flap wheel next time though, in the angle grinder, for roughing out.

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