[modeleng] Re: Filing, now O/T--Daggers & stuff

TEL, I would do so except that I had already goofed by
permanently fixing the cross guard on the blade.  So
now it's a major filing job!  Sigh!!

Al Messer

--- Terry Lane <tel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Why not rough it out with your shaper Al, keep the
> filing to a minimum?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Well, Keith, this would work, but as much material
> as
> > I have to hog off, it would be very, very slow
> going.
> >
> > I mentioned in another reply that this job is the
> > hilt/crossguard on a dagger I am making.  Now,
> > regardless of our views on politics and foreign
> > affairs, I am sure that we all would agree that
> > regardless of where the lads (and lassies) are
> sent,
> > we must support them, especially when they are our
> own
> > flesh and blood.
> >
> > Now, I have not smithed a knife of any sort for
> over
> > 30-35 years, but when one of my lads hands me a
> > Solingen blade he has acquired and tells me that
> he
> > wants me to make him a "Battle blade" as he is
> going
> > back to Iraq by the end of the year and this time,
> he
> > will be leading a company into combat, what could
> I
> > say?
> >
> > The Scots lads have their "blades of last resort"
> > tucked into the top of their stockings, and I have
> no
> > idea where he will carry this one as it has a
> > double-edged blade 9-1/4" in length with an OA
> length
> > of 15", but I will bet my last Dollar that when he
> and
> > his men roll out of their Laager, it will be with
> him.
> >
> > Sorry for the ramble.
> >
> >
> > Al Messer
> >
> > --- Keith Spriggs <kdspriggs@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Al, The only way I have ever found is to wipe
> the
> > > file after each stroke. I
> > > now do this automatically.
> > > Keith
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Allen Messer" <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: "modeleng" <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:00 PM
> > > Subject: [modeleng] Filing
> > >
> > >
> > > > Gentlemen!  Is there a fool-proof way to keep
> a
> > > file
> > > > from pining when filing mild Steel?  It is the
> > > > absolute pits to be almost finished a filing
> job
> > > and
> > > > have the file to pick up a pin and gouge a
> scratch
> > > > that has to be worked out of the finished
> surface.
> > > >
> > > > Al Messer, (94 degrees F. today)
> > > >
> > > >
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