Thread: Embarrassment

I'm still interested in the knives myself. Jason - Did you sell the set in the pics below I originally enquired about? I'm still interested. Drop me a PM and let me know how I can purchase them.

Any news on Jason ?

See he has not been active since last year .

Originally Posted by rangieman

Any news on Jason ?

See he has not been active since last year .

He is very active over on Facebook. He is still doing the knives and has got a strong following.

Mrs hh

It's stretching it a bit to expect us to go over there.

Yeah... Pity he never got back to me on the knives, I was interested in his, but ended up buying some from another guy.

Hi everyone. Yep im still here. Weve been very busy for some time now. Karen is working a lot at the nursing home she loves it there.
Had some stresses as they have canceled her carer pension & seems they will be canceling mine aswell. Just waiting on that letter to say they are.

Ive been very busy making knives. I think i told use i supply Briza there the biggest knife making supplier in scandanavia. The get my hook & small sloyd knives for carving wood & also seax blades from me for the medievil groups.

I suply creataiveman in sydney the same blades aswell.
And we send all our other knives all over the world aswell as here in aus.

We have the jahovas walk around here & ive met 2 people from them that have the same intrests as i do so they keep calling in for a chat.
One of them is a mauri hes funny as with the sayings he says. Im actualy teaching him to make knives as he would like to do that in his retirement in a few years. So when he calls in he brings his big notepad & pens & takes notes on all things & asks lots of questions. We got on quiet well so has made it easier for me. Ive met his family & grandkids. He brings me apple turnovers of a saturday so all good.

Mick88 asked me on facepage if id moved on from landrovers. ONE DOES NOT MOVE ON FROM LANDROVER 😇😇😇😇.

I cant share my knife pics here as i lost them all off my ipad. But if use like or have facepage jump on over say hi. @hillbillyforge or on my page Jason Gwillam.

I am on facepage alot but thats where i sell all my knives cause i cant afford to get a web page made there so expensive.

I put a big order in yesterday at the knife suply shop as im building a new big forge as the one i use now is made fron a 4.5 kg gas bottle. The new one will be from a 9 or maybe even a 15kg gas bottle if i could find one. I have heaps of 9 kg bottle here as i make those ozpig style cookers from them. & i have one cut already to use so probably go that way. Will give me so much more room in the forge. Eventualy ill buy a proper knife making kiln but as there $3,000 it could be quite awhile before i even look at them.

Ive been loving this colder weather as its cold in the shed so have the fire on. I hate summer as the shed gets well into the 60 degrees with the forge on & will be even hotter with a bigger forge. Kilns are much better as they dont radiate as much heat around them.

Oh yeah i also now stabalise my own knife scales (handles) uses a special juice in a vacumn tank sucks out all the air & the juice soaks into the wood. Once there done i wrap them in foil & cook wich sets the juice making them stronger & pretty much waterproof. Also brings out the grains & colours of the wood.

Its also time for me to make another 3 knives that are absolutly perfect for assesment at the australian knife makers guild this time its for full member. So very strict on the assesment this time round.

So thats where we are at, at this point of our lives. Slowly getting there. Would love to turn my knife hobby into a business so that i didnt have to be on a pension but the cost of setting up for larger production just isnt viable.

Cheers jason.

Originally Posted by Homestar

Yeah... Pity he never got back to me on the knives, I was interested in his, but ended up buying some from another guy.

Sorry about that. I wasn’t getting any emails from the group as we change provider & I forgot to change it in the setting here.

All the knives I had shown in here had sold & where from my early days so the quality wasn’t good. Much much better now

Oh I’m also trying to find a cheap 109 rear tub for harry if anyone knows of one let me know. In or near Newcastle.