along with what Kevin said, I have had good experience with bumping the initial temp, up to 1650 the 1075/1080 can over refine in forging resulting i...

A grinder running modern ceramic belts requires pressure to cut, this is regardless of the quality or ability of the machine. If the machine can not t...

I see this all the time in my students work. you are re-setting the bevel to a different angle each pass. To keep the faceting from happening keep ...

I wrote about this in my Knife Magazine column last June. I don't really have any answer then or now. Is it a forged blade .. probably. is it a we...

That is correct, however back when i was in machine shop school the slang/jargon was 0.003 was three thou and 0.030 would be thirty thou. Oddly ...

in this phot the fit looks good, I do see some of the same courser marks on the side (less that in the top view) looks like they may have been buffe...

In this photo I see several issues the first to jump out at me is the but of the handle is not square to the blade. The second this when I opened the...

The photos of the crack show me a few things of interest , first the blue color indicates the crack happened after the quench before the temper or it ...

well I am going to have to disagree with Ed on this, thickness should be fine and that soak time in a oven at that temp should work fine, not what I w...

sounds like those were/are Swiss cut files likely a pillar or flat file. the number 2 cut should leave a finish around 220grit. you can get swiss cut ...

As far as I know bluing is acceptable, I will say don't do what I did on one of the knives and use it on a partial tang. I scratched one of the fitti...

if it is anything like 4340 then what you pair it will is extremally important.. we found 4340 only played well with a few other steels. 4340/5160 was...