Wait, the light bulb in my brain just turned on and it's shining so brightly I can't speak.......
The only coloring I have used on a knife is Birchwood Casey's Plum Brown applied to a blade heated to 200 degrees. Here is a photo of a knife I made f...
Karl says: I also have a hot-bluing video on the ABS channel. Is this the Youtube ABS channel? Because I cannot find your video there by se...
[quote name='Erik Markman' date='11 October 2013 - 11:38 AM' timestamp='1381516717' post='8687'] After a deep etch in ferric I buff the blade and do...
Besides Oakshott, there are some other overview books like Stone's that give a survey. Like with Bowie Knives, there tends to be more than you would t...
Teddy asked a bunch of questions that I think got overlooked along the way. So, I'm going to do my best to try and answer them 1. In normalizing,...
[quote name='jared_foster' date='23 September 2013 - 08:05 PM' timestamp='1379991908' post='8515'] OK thanks Brion I'll bring it to a grey and call ...
[quote name='Matthew Parkinson' date='19 September 2013 - 04:53 AM' timestamp='1379591601' post='8479'] I would think that using a resistance style ...
I misunderstood. I thought you were drawing the whole knife to a blue temper. I don't use 5160 much anymore, but when I did, I would temper at 275 for...
I think I may have posted this in another forum somewhere around here, but here it is again. I saw Mike Quesenberry roll the edge at a hammer-in in ...
Jarad, what steel are you using? I question the "blue temper" you say you will be using. You may find that to be too soft for a working knife. It will...
I'm not sure what steels you are using (or whether it matters), but most of the literature I have on tempering the steels I use, (O-1, 1084, 440C, 154...
While we are on the topic of noralizing, can anyone suggest a method for normalizing large pieces that do not fit in the forge or the oven? The idea o...
Does anyone have any photos of this process? Has anyone tried welding the bolsters to a frame or bolsters to the liners on a folder?
OOPS! Here is the photo.... Attached files