Recent content by JPH

Hello: OK..why would you anneal AFTER Normalization? That is to me redundant..sure you can do it but why? Now I have got to ask...What material? I mean I forge out A-2, D-2 and M-2 on a semi regular basis and that normalization is far different than say what is needed for 1095. So the material...

Hello: Glad you like them..As I said I make mine a little differently than most do..form follows function and they way I hammer these out they arctually "feel" like a knife and not a sharpened pry bar. Couple that with the way I HT these they actually wind up with a full spring temper, not the...

Hello: Here is a sword that a dear frined and I started working on some 25 plus years ago...just finished it up recently.. There is a very interesting story associated with this particular sword. All in all I think it turned out pretty well... JPH

HEllo: OK I think I managed to figure out how to get some pics up...the first a small batch of RR spike knives. I do mine a little differently than more folks .Second is a pic of some tommy-hatchets and the last one is a CU of a blade I did out of some local gathered ore. Shows some really...

Thank you for the welcome..I would post some pics of what I do but me being a total ignoramus as far as compuers go I can not figure out how to sooooo Thank you for the welcome... JPH

Hello from the Nevada Desert. My name is Jim and I make metal stuff...found this site by accident and thought what the heck..may as well join... Hope to be of some help every now and then and if I ask a dumb question..I am sorry but if you don't know..you don't know... J