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    THIS is why you move the knife up and down when you quench.

    The first 10 seconds of this video is the best explanation I have ever seen for why we move a knife blade up and down during the quench. https://fb.watch/qNFVCQG3iJ/
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    Alibaba or Ali-Express

    No worries I appreciate you bringing them up.
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    Alibaba or Ali-Express

    @Gliden07, if you find out who, please let me know. I would like to investigate that. According to their website, Tobin Machines does not sell their roller mills to the US.
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    Alibaba or Ali-Express

    I need them to make a roller mill next.
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    Fixed and a slip

    You are a machine brother...
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    Anler scales!

    We used to raise sheep, and I had a surplus of ram horns to use as scales, so I started to do some research on ways to flatten the material. I thought boiling was more than likely the way to go, but what I found in my research was that boiling adds too much moisture, and likely the material...
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    Oil quenching air hardening steels.

    The way I look at the world is: you can do what you want in your own shop for sure. That being said, I would not treat AEB-L in this manner, especially if you sell your knives. Most SS requires a more exacting HT process with soaks at specific temps. If you were to gain control of your...
  8. Chris Railey

    yakut knives

    I always respected a true Scandi grind for its ease of sharpening alone.
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    3rd Slip Joint

    If I posted pictures of my slip joints you would see...Lol
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    3rd Slip Joint

    I have a question, and this is in no way negative, it's just something I thought about. You are obviously way ahead of me in the folder realm so I figured I would ask. Your liners are brass and your pivot pin is brass. Both have friction contact with hardened steel. Are you worried that the...
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    Second slip joint.

    It will not be long now, and you will be rocking on those things. Awesome. If you have not done so, you may want to make some tapered temporary pins with nice handles on them for the 1,000 times you have to assemble and disassemble every folder. Someone here gave me that advice when I was...
  12. Chris Railey

    Interesting anvil comparison

    Many years ago, I cut the top out of an old Freon bottle and welded a skillet wok in the hole. Then I drilled holes in the bottom of the skillet wok and forced air through a ball valve into the Freon tank. BAM, a forge, was born. I used a piece of rail track as an anvil. Man, that seems like...
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    Past members

    I still holler at Ed occasionally via email mostly, sometimes on his forum. I need to check in on him I have not spoken to him for several months.
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    Interesting anvil comparison

    When I buy another anvil, it will be this one. The price is right, and you can do a ton of work on it. Plus, it is super easy to secure to a BA Stump. I almost pulled the trigger on it at the beginning of last year but my stupid heater broke and I had to pay for that...
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    First slip joint

    That is a pretty dog on good for a first attempt with no official slip joint training. I would consider that a huge success. If it follows the path mine did, the spring tension will lessen as you use it, so it may still end up where you want it. Good job. I went back and looked at your...
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