Sunday Morning

The rifleman's knife is done. It's on the site here and I think it turned out rather nice. The brass casting went well also but the extra 400 degrees or so difference from melting aluminum made my gas forge work harder than it ought to. I'm in the process of building a dedicated, melting furnace but I tried to cheap out and not buy/make "real" refractory. I don't think it's going to work and I'll have to bite the bullet and either buy refractory or find a source for bentonite and make some. Something I should have done from the beginning but for the perils of having an anxiety disorder.
Below is a pic of the rough casting and below, one of them finished with the blade.


In addition, I've been refining my bad attitude regarding the elitist knifemaking clubs and have come up with my own logo for ABSCOW (I'm probblay going to change that acronym but it'll do for now). You'll find it below. Feel free to rip it off and make it your own. The knife is one of mine and the anvil pic came from E-(vil empire)Bay. It's a 137# Trenton.
Some people shouldn't be allowed to use Photoshop.