Hood Block

A designer for The North Face saw hat blocks I made a few months ago and asked if one could be done for a hood. The hood block will be machined in two halves, glued together and finished.  The piece begins as a stack of wood glued together. What will be the inside of one half is faced and...

Small Hardware

Steel strikes for magnetic...

Laser cut wood

I’ve been spending most of my time on a project covered by non-disclosure agreement. Here is an old picture of some laser cut wood to keep something fresh on the...

Knife blank probing

I bought this Spyderco Mule Knife blank with the intention of making some custom scales for it. I probed the entire perimeter of the knife in case I want to make a machined sheath or a positive for forming a Kydex sheath. I wrote a fairly crude probing routine and let it run while I did some...

Triple Clamps May06

Triple Clamps

7075 aluminum.