Recent content by Grogimus

Thanks guys. I'll give this a whirl when I get home from work. Looks like I should be able to use a smaller hard firebrick in between the larger, softer fire bricks I was closing the rear of the forge with to make plenty of room to extend the blade through. It is full tang, I forgot to...

Hardened and did 1 temper cycle on my first knife tonight, made from Aldo's 1084. I used a paint can forge with a MAPP torch. I used fire bricks to close the rear of the forge off and I think that led to the mistake. When I finished the first hour of tempering at 400F the beautiful straw...