Bubba- recently I have personally started using acraglass per Bill Burke, with it they sell a black and brown dye..........to go along with that I hav...

so I used to use G Flex until I mentioned to Bill Burke "ok I used a heat gun and got it to release, etc "..........he politely freaked and corrected ...

this one is real close to a musso pattern I cut out of some aluminum plate, now that I am on this path the forging them to shape vs stock removal is m...

I should hook you up with one of my old kung fu students, huge brain small arms and massive heart. He is a UC Davis PHD Electrical Engineer

[quote name='Mike Krall' date='28 March 2019 - 07:43 PM' timestamp='1553827431' post='24402'] Yow! If you put wings on it, you could go to the ...

stunning execution of work, very nice seeing this kind of care about craftsmanship 🙂

[quote name='Mike Krall' date='28 March 2019 - 09:30 AM' timestamp='1553790615' post='24390'] Don't know your burner type... naturally aspirated or ...

[quote name='Karl B. Andersen' date='28 March 2019 - 06:23 AM' timestamp='1553779428' post='24388'] That small of a forge is going to get screaming ...

there is pletty grind wise wrong with this blade honestly, but for the purpose of poster's making a hamon. It does a nice job of a not busy and clear ...

had to shrink pics some for forum, this is the result post being told to remove the saber grind and revealing the auto hamon created from the shaping ...

new guy here so take this with a grain of salt and a more experience smith can chime in and correct me if I say something wrong. I have been playing ...

new guy roaming the pages doing some reading later than I should at my age.......lol. The title of the steel caught my eye, I have a bit of this steel...