It's been a while, but I sure have been busy!

It's been a month and a half since I last posted, I find that it's much easier to make youtube videos with updates than it is to keep the blog updated, so to keep track of all the new cool stuff I'm working on it's best to subscribe to my youtube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/JohnGrimsmo

The past month I've spent a lot of time trying to perfect my Paramilitary 2 handles, I've made 3 sets so far and they're all wrong, the nested liners don't line up with the clip and pivot holes in the scales so it just doesn't work at all.  It will simply be a matter of trial and error until I get them perfect, once that happens then they will be very repeatable and every one will be exact..  Ahh the joys of CNC machining!  I just got a big sheet of lightning strike carbon fiber in the mail today, this is the perfect thickness for Para2 handles.

Last week I got to play with a lot of titanium.  Norman from NukoTools contacted me and asked if I could do some engraving for him.  He makes titanium knuckels (like brass knuckles but obviously in Ti), and he needed 160 of them engraved with his logo.  It was really fun to finally get to work with titanium.  I used a 1/16" carbide ballmill, 0.005" depth of cut, 4500rpm, and feedrate was 2.7ipm (thank you Gwizard for suggesting these feeds/speeds!).  Here are a few videos describing the process, and also how we anodized a bunch of them for fun.

 I also got to finally try a new pattern on my Spydero Manix 2 handles, Dragon Scales!  I'm working with a local artist who is amazing he hand drew the pattern for the scales and then I copied it into the CAD program.  Check out these pictures and videos!