Stonewashed Titanium Rulers

Howdy folks,

I have a batch of stonewashed ti rulers ready to go. These will are plain, no anodizing. The finish is bright with a zillion little scratches and the contrast with the numbers and scales is really nice. These will wear wonderfully for years to come. The price is $45 plus shipping and the link is below:

Sold Out!

What's Peter Up to Now?

Hehe, wouldn't you like to know? :D Well, at least I hope someone wants to know.... :P

OK, I have some plain uncolored stonewashed rulers done which I will be posting today. There are also some blasted ones coming later this week which will be anodized. Maybe I can squeeze in some patterns for a lottery if I have time.

Next wave of BigShots has just come back from the passivation step. I'll be name stamping them in the next couple of days and then will post a general sale. There are lots of them. As mentioned a little while back I need to nudge the price slightly on this next batch to $55 each.

There are still more Fixers coming but I have to start from scratch on the sheaths. Not a lot of them are left so I will probably do a couple of lotteries for the remaining ones. It will be at least two weeks probably or more before I can get to them.

Other than the above projects I have been doing some much needed yardwork and I need to make a day for shop cleaning and maintenance sometime in the next couple of weeks.

No news or progress on the G3 Prybabies but I need to buckle down and do some grinding on them so I can get them moving along in the process.

Hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather! It will be air conditioner time in a couple of weeks and then I'll be looking for excuses to hang out in my cool basement shop. In the winter it's almost penitential to go down in the cold dungeon but when the hot weather comes it's downright pleasant. Translation= work gets done. :)

Fixers: Wave Two

Hi Boys and Girls,

Got another couple dozen of these done. Here's the link:

Sold Out, thanks folks!

First Wave of Fixers

I have almost three dozen Fixers done in this first wave. Will have the next wave either Wednesday or Thursday.

Sold out for now, thank you folks!

Fixer specs:

5/32" thick S30v steel
3.375" OAL
1.375" cutting edge
1" from tip to end of blade measuring along the top edge
6 American wrench sizes 1/4-9/16"
1/4 Hex opening mainly for sheath retention and fine tactile manipulation
Kydex sheath with bead chain

DO NOT USE THE WRENCHES WITHOUT THE SHEATH COVERING THE BLADE.

Few More Fixer Shots

Sheaths in progress and 7/16" bolt action!

Update

I'm still working on sheaths and sharpening. Fixers will be released on Tuesday or Wednesday. Price will be $150 plus shipping. Thanks for being so patient folks and here's a few pics to tide you over... :)

And the winners are:

11 ideadoc
63 freeman7
75 wwnick
114 shroyerg
152 elfan888
165 lcd
173 Jonesy
177 steven
262 kuh
303 rad

Thanks very much folks! I will send emails to the winners right now.

DLC Mini Son of PryThing Lottery

Well it's been a while since I have done a lottery. Since it will be a couple of days until I can get enough sheaths done to unveil the Fixer knives I thought I would offer up the last of the DLC MSOPThings. This is the end of them and no more are planned at the moment.

There are 10 of these total, all matte black finish with black cord wrap. They come with a kydex sheath and beadchain. Price will be $180 plus shipping.

Lottery is over!

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What's Next?

Hi Folks!

Well, I'm in good shape with the BigShot list. Everyone who signed up on the list during the one month period that it was open have been contacted. I'd say about 96% of folks responded which was an incredible response I thought. Thanks so much everyone for helping me see this project to fruition!

There will be more BigShots coming in a week or so for those folks who wanted more than the two that I allowed in the first round of direct email sales. I'll do at least one or possibly two more rounds of these before making a significant change to the design. There will also be a small price nudge upwards on the next batch to $55 each and hopefully that will not be too excessive.

In other news, ti rulers are at the laser marking company now for the measuring scales to be applied. They should be back by next week I would think.

I'm back into sheath mode and will be unveiling the new fixed blade knife in the next couple of days. They will be released via general sale and there is quite a large number of them coming.

More info coming soon!

Rolling with the BigShots

Hi Everyone,

I know it's been a little while since I announced the BigShots and some people have had theirs for a month or two. I wanted to let you all know that I am still going down my list as I finish the cups. Today I reached the halfway point in my list so if you signed up for them and have not yet heard from me don't worry! It's a rather huge list and it is taking me some time to get through it all.

The really great news if that I have just finished my next installment of pieces and have resumed going through the list. I will be getting more done next week as well so it's looking like I may be able to just about get to the finish in two weeks or so.

I am still planning to do some general release sales when I have completed the list phase and I will make sure that the folks who wanted more than the two that I have allotted during this phase will have plenty of opportunity to pick more of these up if they wish.

I also wanted to say a big thanks to everyone who has purchased a BigShot so far and thanks you all so much for your kind words about them and your patience with this project! :)

Another Plate of Cookies

Today's flavor: For all you vanilla lovers, Plain Bead Blasted. :)

Sold out!

Cookie Wrench

The past couple of days I have been taking a little time off and enjoying the weather which is finally starting to show some signs of spring. So since I can't seem to bear being in the shop more than an hour or two at a time I've been rather slowly picking away at these. Unfortunately for me we're in for a spell of April showers so it looks like it's back to the grindstone this week. :D Anyway, here's the official spiel:

Atwood Titanium Cookie Wrenches measure 2.25" in diameter and are made of 1/8" thick stock. They are based loosely on antique lantern wrench designs from the 1940's. Features include 1/4 and 5/16 hex openings, 3/8, 7/16 and 1/2" wrenches, 5/16 open end wrench/bottle opener, oxygen bottle wrench, lanyard and center 7/8" hex opening.

This batch is lightly bead blasted and anodized a rich rose gold color. Clean with Windex or other glass cleaner periodically to keep the color bright.

So there you are...crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside. Mmmmm good, just like Mom's only these last much longer...LOL.

The Cookie Wrenches will be $65 plus shipping. I didn't make a whole lot of them so it will be one per customer. I'm still finishing the batch so there will be another wave pretty soon. Maybe the next ones will be chocolate chip!

These are gone for today, thank you!





P.S. They are NOT Cookie Cutters. Do you see a blade on these? :P

MicroSpuds: Final Wave

MicroSpuds are sold out, thanks everyone.

Few More SuperBugs...

Sold out, thank you folks!

No XL G3s

People keep emailing me and asking if I will do some XL G3 Prybabies in the next batch. No, I can't. The reason is, if I have grooves or thumb scallops on the top edge of the tool then on a lot of the pieces a little teeny stress crack occurs when I make the bend. It's very small. While I don't think it really affects the strength of the tool it looks as though it is a small crack and therefore casts doubt in my mind. In the past I did make a few and then had to spend a considerable amount of time grinding and sanding to fix the areas in question.

What I can do at some point is to make a batch of Prybabies with no grooves or scallops and no little jog at the bottle opener area. That way with an uninterrupted expanse the bend would go smoothly with no problems.

SuperBugs!

Darn!

Was trying to have a sale this morning but paypal keeps acting fluky and sometimes works and sometimes doesn't when I try to do shipping labels. So I'm giving up for today. In addition, our email server is screwed up now too so I can't send emails except over my blackberry. This ain't my day apparently...

SuperBugs

The first wave of SuperBugs are done. I have quite a few of these and will be cleaning and assembling more over the next day or two.

SuperBugs are made of 5/32 S30v steel. I'm sure the various functions are obvious and familiar to Atwood fans. :) No plans for a ti version right now but who knows?

I found a neat little bee or fly image amongst my old jeweler's stamps and just had to include it on the tool. These rare metal stamps are from the 1800's and I think it's so cool to be able to create a bridge between the centuries this way. Plus given my output of energy this past month the bee seemed more than appropriate!

SuperBugs will be $50 plus shipping. I had 10 lefties but they are all gone, thanks.


These are gone for now but I have many many more coming in a day or so. Thanks folks!

Quick Update

I'm sick as a dog today with a cold. No energy, although my nose isn't as bad as it was yesterday. So probably this week will be a little slower than the past week...

On a positive note, next group of BigShots are heading to the passivators today and so probably by the end of the week I will resume going down the list and sending out emails. They will be running more BigShots all this week so I expect the wave to continue through next week. Hopefully we will make substantial progress in getting through the list.

Some of the SuperBugs will be ready later this week.

Plain Ti Rulers

Alright folks, got a few of the plain Titanium Rulers ready to go. As I mentioned in the post below, these have a light glass bead finish on them. It was originally my intention to have a much larger batch than this but half of the rulers never even made it to the marking stage and then there was some loss in the final finishing stage. So we are left with a few dozen pieces that are saleable.

And before anyone else asks, no, I will not be releasing seconds of these. I would rather instead do a second batch. Now that I understand the areas where there were problems with the first bunch I am confident I can avoid pretty much all of it and get another group made within a few weeks. I plan to obtain the material on Monday and get that next batch going so no worries if you miss out on this batch, there will be a lot more coming and it should not take very long to make it happen.

Price on these is $45 plus shipping and I have to keep it at one per customer this time around. These are plain finish only, no anodized pieces in this group.

Sold Out! Thank you!

No Release Today

Sorry guys, I'm still working on rulers....tomorrow for sure though.

Good News (hopefully)

I spoke with the shop this morning and they have gotten their BigShot tooling straightened out and dialed in. They are estimating that they could have most of my total order filled by a week from Monday. If so that would be absolutely awesome as I was fearing this could drag on for many weeks with a lot of starts and stops. It still has that potential of course but right now it's looking good that most folks on the list will be seeing a BigShot in their hand within two-three weeks or so. :)

I had a meeting today that took up my afternoon so was out of the shop... I'll be messing around with ti rulers over the weekend and hopefully knock out the finish work so I can have a sale. Maybe tomorrow afternoon or Sunday...supposed to be rainy anyway so nothing to do but stay in and work. :)

Ti Rulers Coming Soon

They are back from marking and I'm quite pleased. These have been such a long time in coming for what they are and it's been kinda nuts. Basically it was one of those little projects where everything that could go wrong did go wrong. But I'm finally beyond all that and if I do these again or at least some variation of them I will know exactly what to do next time.

Anyway, I was able to rescue about half of the batch. A lot of these do have minor surface blems, blips and small scratches so do be forewarned. I'll be sorting them out over the next few days and will save what I can. Because of uneven finishes from tumbling I will have to bead blast these with a fine glass bead media but that is not all bad since it gives them a nice frosted look. I'll be anodizing some and leaving some plain...we'll see what happens with them when I get fully underway with the finishing.

Note the cool way that the laser marked scales develop complementary colors to the main color of each piece. It's a really neat effect. Green gets gold marks, gold gets UV, UV gets green and (not shown) blue gets silver. Plain just looks dark gray or black.

A Few MicroSpuds

Hi Folks,

When it rains it pours! :)

I have a few of the CPM 3V MicroSpuds done. These nifty 5 inch mini tools are loosely based on the gigantic old fashioned irons worker's tools. The MicroSpuds feature a bottle opener and 7/16 wrench opening, pry tip with V notch, 1/4 hex opening and tapered tail end used for aligning objects before bolting them together. They are not sharp enough to act as a marlin spike...these have a bright stonewashed finish. They are running $70 each plus the shipping. Link to purchase is here:

Sold Out for now! Thanks folks, I really appreciate it.

BigShot Update

Hi Folks,

First of all, the BigShots that are coming back from the passivators where they have been acid dipped and cleaned are absolutely GORGEOUS! Wow...Just a super nice bright finish on them and I'm overjoyed with the results. I think you will be too. ;)

OK, here's how it will work: I will be going down the list in the order that people signed up. As I get these done and as your name comes up on the list I'll send an email to you with a buy now link. I think that's a simple low stress way to do it and also it's fair.

I have had a tremendous response to the BigShots so it is going to take a while to get them all made and to get through the list. I think for the first pass I will limit it to two per person just so we can get through everyone who wants one as quickly as possible. The shop that I am working with has said that they will make as many pieces as I want so if people want more than two I think that it will not be a problem to get them to you but it's going to take a little time.

Now, these will be getting done in waves. The first wave has already started and over the next few days I'll finish the name stamps and get more of these out. My buddies at the shop had to bump me for another job last week so we lost a week of production. They will start turning more BigShots tomorrow however and will give me another week or so of machine time. Then I'll probably be getting bumped again for a few days and this will continue like this for as long as it takes to get all the pieces made that I want. When I do get done with the list I will no doubt have extras made and probably do some general release sales.

So, bear with me if you will and I'll get everyone hooked up as fast as I can. Thanks for your interest and your patience! :)

More Shiners!

Well, by a small miracle I finally have some stuff ready to go. Shiners came back from heat treat yesterday and my fingers are sore today from all the O rings and lanyard tying. But I have about half of them ready to go right now. :)

Shiners are made of CPM S30v steel, 5/32 thick, 3.25" OAL. These simple little keyfob tools feature a screwdriver tip, bottle opener, 1/4" hex drive opening and thick rubber O rings for a secure grip. They run $45 each plus shipping.

Sold Out, thanks.

Shot Glass Update

Hi Folks,

First of all, response to the BigShots has been enormous! Thank you all for the interest and enthusiasm for these. I thought they were cool as hell but I never know what others will think of thise stuff and you all have made it plain that you like them too. So thanks for that. :)

They are running shot glasses right now and they should have a pretty good pile of them for me on Monday or Tuesday. However, as always seems to happen, the shop is bumping me on Tuesday to run another small job which has a deadline attached. Supposedly they will resume running shot glasses the following week and you can be sure I'll be on top of it holding their feet to the fire. I'm really hoping they will finish the run completely in the second phase but we shall see...

So what I will probably do is go down the list in the order that people signed up and email them a buy now link. Seems like the best and most fair way to do it. Not sure yet if the release will be on Tuesday because we are also evaluating if we want to do a passivation step or not and the samples by which I will determine that will be back to the shop on Monday. Passivation is a process where the part is cleaned and then dipped in acid to remove any free iron particles on the surface of the metal leaving only chromium, nickel and other trace elements. It's not mandatory but it seems like it might be a good idea as long as the cost is minimal which it is supposed to be.

BigShot

Well this project has been a long time in the making. I first thought about making these about two years ago and it has been a very long road indeed. After a lot of pestering of my machine shop buddy and fiddling around I finally managed to get a proto done last year but it turned out to be a dissapointment. The shape wasn't quite right and the piece was incredibly heavy and a little tippy. I also wasn't happy with the way the knurl was going to be done.

So, back to the drawing board I went. After a good bit of deliberation I decided to go with my whistles as the basis for the design and make it a simple cylinder with beautiful knurling. Well this week I spent several days at the shop watching the machine set up and tweaking the final shape and design. The result is super clean and functional and I'm extremely happy with the proto that was finished yesterday.

BigShots are made of solid 2 inch diameter 303 stainless steel bar stock. Absolutely massive yet we also managed to give them a decent sense of balance in the hand. The capacity of the finished cup is 3 fl oz (85ml) (same size as a brewpub sampler glass) and they weigh in at a hefty 7.5 ozs (213g). LOL, this is a drinking cup that will put muscle in your forearm... just big enough for an ice cube or two and a splash of your favorite libation. Use it as a juice glass, an office paperweight or the manliest bathroom cup ever. :p :D

One thing is for sure, I absolutely guarantee that you will never break it and it will indeed last forever. These babies are truly monolithic!

The only version available for now will be the one pictured below. This knurl looks the best of the three available to me. Up the road who knows but this is what we will do for now.

The BigShots are ready to start in production today or Monday. Not sure yet of their schedule at the shop but it looks like I will have finished pieces by the end of this week coming. I will just have to do a name stamp and run them through the dishwasher and they will be ready to go. The price will be $47 each plus shipping and it will be a general release sale, probably a couple of sales and I will have plenty of extras if people email me.

I can always do a second run later but I'd like to try to get the production number close the first time because these are costing me a small fortune to make. So if those of you who are interested would help me out by signing up below I'd really appreciate it and it will give me some idea of what to shoot for. Thanks. :)

BigShot List is Closed. Will be doing a general release once I make it through the current list. Probably will be in late May for a general release sale. Thanks folks!

What's Taking So Long?

Hehe, I'm glad you asked! :)

Sorry for the endless delays folks. I've been working my butt off these last few weeks and yet nothing ever seems to get to the completed stage. However, this week coming will see a raging torrent of activity as several projects come to a finish pretty much all at once.

Shiners will be back from heat treat any day now. I thought they might be on Friday's UPS delivery but they weren't. So maybe Monday in which case Tuesday would be the earliest release date since I have to clean them up and package them. But I have no way of knowing the actual day they will be back so that is just a guess.

The 3V MicroSpuds will also be coming back middle or end of this week coming. They looked fantastic after the first tumbling so after heat treat and a finish tumble I think these are going to be absolutely gorgeous. I'm really looking forward to adding one to my own collection. ;)

BigShot stainless steel shot glasses are finally coming up. I have been thinking about this project for two years now. We worked up a prototype last year but I was very dissatisfied with it. The design was too top heavy and unstable and I wouldn't be able to get my favorite knurling on it in a way that was pleasing me. So I went back to basics and totally redesigned the piece. I started pushing a couple of weeks ago to see if we could squeeze a run into the schedule (no small task) and lo and behold it is actually going to happen. I've spent the past several days scuttling back and forth to the shop and having a blast tweaking the design and watching the whole machine setup. I now have the final proto in my hot little hands and the actual run will start today or Monday. Should have some product by the end of the week. Pics of the proto and a sign up post so I can get a rough idea of how many to make will be coming later today.

SuperBugs are all ground and at the tumblers right now for the first stage of tumbling. I'll be getting them back this week for name stamping and then they will go out to the heat treaters. Two weeks or so away on those.

Fixer Knives are rough ground and all I need to do is the finish grinds and clean up the edges. Then they can go out to the first tumbling. So we're getting quite close on them and maybe have them ready by mid April.

Ti Rulers came back from tumble and half of them have burrs on them still. I can't tell you how pissed I am that this stupid little project which was supposed to be a very easy one has turned into a never ending nightmare. The hex openings were all cut undersized so I've had to ream them and then broach them by hand which took forever. Then we had endless problems with the drawing because we couldn't figure out how to get both Imperial and Metric scales on the same drawing. Finally resolved it by doing two drawings and I still have to find out if the laser marking place can deal with it. What a pain in the ass. I'm tempted to trash what I have and just start over but I really wanted to salvage enough to at least pay for the cutting and material. We'll see...

Ti Keyfobs came back from tumble yesterday and they look great. This is a very small batch of only 3 dozen. They will take a little while to decorate and do rivets. Most will probably go via the lottery and will be released in dribs and drabs as I get to it.

Cookie Wrench is coming! Got the second revised drawing finished for this yesterday and they will be cut next week. This is a titanium disc shaped wrench tool based on the old fashioned lantern wrenches. Really neat looking piece, almost like a iron cross or throwing star sort of a thing but no sharp edges of course. Kind of reminds me of the Bermuda Triangles a little bit but an entirely new tool. They will be done in 1/8" titanium for the first run.

A school of Shiners right before they headed out to heat treat last week:

Working working working...

The past few days I have been working on stuff like a lunatic. There is a ton of stuff in progress but as usual it's taking forever to get it finished. The Shiner keychain tool is under way and the MicroSpuds are almost ready to send to heat treat. In addition to those I have SuperBugs cut and ready to start grinding later this week. Also have various prototypes that I'm refining and testing so there is much on the horizon even if it seems very slow right now.

Here's a sneak peak at the Shiner proto:



Why call it the Shiner? Well, for those of you who are not fishermen, shiners are also known as minnows. They are a favorite bait fish for the fresh water fisherman who prefers to use live bait over artifical lures. I guess I could also call these the SS Minnows. :)

And the winners are:

10 tucker824z
25 DB
35 fightin\' mike
62 Drteeth26
96 Luck-E
114 wilrader
118 YIYIPT
161 jet
176 Ironwood
187 H2O
200 Figurado

Thanks folks! I'll send emails out right now.

There will be more lotteries coming up as soon as I get some more pieces done. I have some big batches in progress as well so there will be some upcoming general release sales. I will make some announcements and show some more pics in a few days.

DLC RingThing Lottery

Well, what do you know, I finally managed to get the DLC RingThings done. I'll tell you, sometimes it's hard to crack the whip when you're aiming it at yourself. :)

Anyway, these came out very nice. They have a satin finish, S30v steel with Diamond Like Carbon coating and they come with a kydex sheath and beadchain. They will be $160 plus shipping and I have 11 of them available. Lottery has ended.

Lottery is over and emails will be send to the winners shortly. Once again I am amazed and humbled by the turn out and I thank you all for your interest and enthusiasm for my products!

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And the winners are:

35 James B
53 hornady708
99 chadt
106 Grammy
133 SchexMixx
162 daddywantsnewtool
183 Apollo
196 kangjin
203 pocket debris
222 Bottomgun
232 smkjrose
252 Inspgad

Thanks folks, I certainly do appreciate it. I will send an email off to the winners right now.

Golden Atwrench Lottery

Howdy folks. I just completed a dozen titanium Atwrenches with Helter Skelter patterning, anodized rose gold with inlaid glow dots. There are just 12 of these, the price will be $90 each plus shipping and the lottery will end tonight at 8PM EST. Thanks for checking them out. :)

Lottery is over!

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Plain Ti Atwrench

OK, I have a couple dozen plain ti Atwrenches available. They are $70 plus shipping and they are sold out. Thanks!

Sold Out, thank you!

Titanium Atwrenches!

Happy Friday Folks!

I just started finishing the titanium Atwrench batch today and I decided to start with some green ones. Other colors will follow over the weekend, probably will do plain uncolored ones next. They are $70 each plus shipping and the batch is good sized but not huge so I'm keeping it at one per customer for the time being. Thanks for stopping by and hope everyone has a great weekend. :)

Green ti Atwrenches are sold out!

Return of the RingThings

Well I finally got the rest of the sheaths done for the remaining RingThing knives. These all have a stonewash finish and there are just a handful available. There are also a limited number of DLC ones coming shortly but probably via the lottery.

RingThings are Sold Out, thanks!

SuperBug Proto

I'm thinking about revisiting my BugBite design but doing them in steel and adding a bottle opener. I've been toting this proto on my own keychain for a month now and I really like it. I upgraded the O-rings to a beefier size which gives the tool a better feel and the length is slightly longer to fit the bottle opener in there. A nice way to carry a tool bit in an ultra small package. Whaddya think, should I do a run?

What the Heck is a MicroSpud?

Yeah I know, it's the one big question on everyone's minds these days... :p :D To fully understand the thinking behind this piece you'd have to see an original and I'd prefer to show that in a video because it's pretty unbelievable. I'll try to get a clip up soon.

I actually have a batch of these cut and am starting work on them this week coming so they will not be far off.

Not the greatest picture but my "prop" wouldn't sit still long enough to get a good shot:

More Green Rings!

Hi Everyone,

I got a few more ti RingTools done. These are the same size 12 as the previous ones and are all anodized green.

Green ti rings are gone for now, thank you!




****Progress Update*****

I am working feverishly on a bunch of other projects right now. Ti Atwrenches are at the tumblers right now and should be back by end of next week if all goes well.

Ti Rulers are still delayed. I had some problems with the cutting and have to broach all the holes by hand. I also still need more CAD work done for the metric scale so don't expect these anytime soon. These were supposed to be a quick and easy project and they have turned into a giant, slow, pain in the butt. Oh well...

Other upcoming projects include the MicroSpud, details of which are coming soon. Also coming is the Shiner, a keychain tool. And I have a small batch of some simple non functional decorative titanium Keyfobs. I also have finally started a small keychain knife called the Fixer which has been planned since last summer and is now in the first stages of work. Huge batch of those are coming. February and March will be very busy!

More lotteries coming up with a few more blades so please stay tuned for those as well..

Alright, here they are:

5 HoopleHead - the Grail!
51 Hurbert@1st
100 jmoh
121 bombarder defuser
183 olds442lover
187 atomu
211 yoyo
213 clearytja
227 MamaC

Thank you folks! I will send emails out to the winners right now. Have a great rest of the weekend everyone.

Blackout MSOPThing Lottery

Howdy all,

I finally got some more DLC MSOPThings done and decided to do them all with the black cord wrap for the cool blackout effect. I'm sorry I did not have any black bead chain on hand so it would be a total blackout look even with the kydex sheath but I'm sure the winners could scrounge some up if they look around.

Anyhow, I have 9 of these and they are $185 plus $10 shipping in the USA or $25 shipping for International Express Mail. The lottery is over! Thanks for the interest and enthusiasm folks, I sure do appreciate it.

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And the winners are:

8 jodj
19 Leezell
20 gatherer
22 The Canjo Man
39 Rico
54 Code-X
90 echo 163
135 MadoxJuliet
138 dork
146 justaboutreadytogiveup
150 Briggz
155 Shao Lung

I'll send emails out to the winners shortly.

Thanks for participating folks, I appreciate it. I have more odds and ends I'm about to finish so there will be another lottery in a day or so. I have some larger batches of tools in the works as well and they are rapidly nearing completion so some general sales are coming up soon too.

Patterned Ti RingTools

Happy Friday Boys and Girls!

Here's a little batch of ti RingTools that I have done up with my Helter Skelter patterning and then anodized with Spectrum anodizing. They came out pretty nice I thought. ;) Same size as the previous ones, size 12.

Anyway, these are being offered via the Lottery. I have 12 of them and they are $45 each plus shipping. The Lottery is over.


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Getting There Slowly!

Some may recall that I had to buy a new computer last summer thinking that my old one was about to kick the bucket. Well, it kept hanging on so I kept using it and putting off setting up the new one....until this past weekend when the old one just refused to boot up. So I spent the last three days getting used to the new machine and rebuilding my business files and everything else. Luckily I had backed up most of my important files so very little was lost. What a pain but at least I'm through the worst of it and almost all back to normal. Taking a bit to get used to a new keyboard, Vista, etc.

Will be getting back to work in the shop tomorrow. Lot of new stuff is in the early stages right now. More news coming soon.

Ti RingTools!

Hi Everyone,

I have completed the first wave of Ti RingTools. These are all stonewash finished and anodized. I will be offering three colors: Green, Blue and UV.

The official ring size of these is size 12 so they will fit most average sized fingers. They will be a little too small for really big guys but I will probably do a larger sized piece in a future run so if you were a football player in a past life don't worry! Folks with smaller hands like me can wrap a little thread or tape around the bottom to take up the slack. Or wear it on your thumb. ;)

Each comes with extra o-rings and a #1 Phillips bit insert. Price will be $35 plus shipping.

All three colors are sold out! Thank you folks. Am already starting a second batch so probably will have more in a few weeks.

Bird of Paradise Winner Is:

Lucky number is 86, PK!

Thanks very much folks and will have more of these lotteries in the next day or two.

Bird of Paradise Lottery

Howdy folks! Just got the sheath done for this one and I thought it would be a nice way to kick off 2009. This is a one of kind, hand made neck knife with V ground blade. It is 5/32" thick S30v steel with approximately 2 inch cutting edge and about 5 inches OAL. It has DLC coating with high contrast jungle patterning. I decided to call it the Bird of Paradise which kind of suits it. It comes with a kydex sheath with bead chain and also a mini teklok belt clip. Price will be $225 shipped in the US, extra $15 for international shipping and there is only just this one piece.

Lottery is over, thanks folks!

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Update

Howdy folks. Hope everyone had an enjoyable, stress free and safe holiday season!

I'm still taking it easy and catching up on paperwork and some odds and ends. Things will be very slow for the next week or two while I take care of some stuff and order new sheets of steel, etc. It takes awhile to gear back up after a big push like I made before the Christmas week.

RingTools will not be ready for a little while yet. I got them last week from tumbling but they need more grinding and a retumble before I can do the final anodizing, etc. So figure two weeks for them. There is only one hole size for now and it is .838" or 21.2mm. This size will fit medium and average size fingers but probably not the giant mitts of 250 lb guys. I'll be making a second slightly larger size later on this winter. I'm not going to get into a whole bunch of sizes on these because it's a nightmare. They are what they are. The first batch is made of hefty 3/16" thick titanium stock and although I have not yet figured out the final cost I think the price will be reasonable.

Ti Rulers are also on deck with the RingTools but I still have a bunch of work to do on them. Hopefully I will get to the ti stuff later this week and get it moving along in the process again.

I will be having more lotteries in mid January. I have some more knives to finish and right after I do the prep work on the ti stuff I will get back into sheath mode.

That's about it for now. Happy Football Playoffs! ;)