Hello Linda and welcome. Are you asking about quenching one blade multiple times? Such as Ed Fowler does with 52100. I will let others add to this one...

A great person to talk to and very giving with his knowledge. I met him at a Blade show and listened. We had a good talk. He will be sorely missed. My...

Cool Lin. You will make a great instructor. The students will learn a lot. Excellent choice. Brion

We are looking forward to it. Always a good time and great to see everyone. Hope to see a lot of you all there. Brion

Hello Ryan. As Allen stated this two week course is primarily about learning to forge and grind, then heat treat your blades. Also to enable you to ma...

Welcome Greg. Glad to have you here and in the ABS. Feel free to post any questions as Dan said and I look forward to meeting you in the future. You m...

Hello Ryan. Check out the section here entitled "preparing for class" It is one of the threads under this topic. Some really good information. From my...

Hello Ryan. Probably another thing you won't enjoy reading, sorry. Since these are used leaf springs, think about the stresses they have been under. H...

I do use the golden mean sometimes, mainly with ricasso's. You can use it to determine the length of the ricasso. As Lin said this does not work so we...

Troney, good question and I wish more would ask it. As Mike says think shaping and contouring. I think it is finally starting to sink in here. Lin is ...

Congratulations everyone. Beautiful knives and talk about tough decisions. Very hard to pick, but everyone had a good time and got to see a real impre...

Welcome Jerry. Any news on little Jerry or should we be looking for the milk carton? Brion

Thank you for the response Jim. Isn't that the truth about having your wife look at your knives, Diane has the microscope eyes which usually results i...