
As
you would expect, perfect records are kept in MD Lab's filing system.
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Bending
blade in vise with 12-inch wrench
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Blades in
miscellaneous stages of completion
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Blades waiting for
handles
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Mad Dog with YeeDude
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Corporate Ethic
signs
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CTT/Taiwan ATAK
Things waiting for final grip profiling
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CTT/Taiwant ATAK
Things - Note the 3 bonded pieces that form the grip
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Demonstrating heat
treated edge by running file across it
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Not-so-high-tech
oven used for initial gross heat treating.
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Box with MD's secret
oil quench formula
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MD showing how
serrations would be cut freehand on a vised blade
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MD showing the
sanding belts that his shop uses
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MD whacking wooden
pallet with 'Macinator'
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MD with extended
'Macinator'
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MD with retracted
'Macinator'
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MD cutting the ATAK
Thing's grip profile out
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Starrett 496-01
steel barstock
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Pack Rats
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Le digital heat
treating oven de Mad Dog
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Sanding contours
onto my ATAK Thing's handle
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Some secret
"tools of the trade" on the workbench - note frog. Obscured sign reads
"NOTICE - Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted To The Full Extent Of Two Mongrel Dogs And
One Double-Barreled Shotgun"
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Why look,
it's David Schuff hard at work!
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Table full of shaped
blanks waiting to be ground
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MD grinning
with a Saxon Sword
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