Recent content by JSteiner

Awesome. Love to see someone else mount their dremel in a vise.

Why after all that honing and polishing did they stamp the size on the end? Looks like it deformed the barrel. I figured you will be cutting that off but it just seems weird. Can't wait to see this take shape

Thanks for the tips. I've got 2 more sticks of 5160 so ill keep on smackin

Just got my forge and anvil set up and on 2 knives I've run into the same problem. After forging in the point, distal taper and setting the ricasso I start forging in the bevels with the blade perpendicular to the anvil. When I am forging the bevels with the edge facing me the side hitting the...

Nice! Why the rubber drive wheel?

Make sure your piece is flat on the anvil. barely hold on to the stock and hit it on the anvil. if it bounces its not flat. Raise or lower your hand until when you hit it it doesn't bounce.

You can also forge a clip in. That will push your tip back down. Also you can pre bend your blade before forging in your bevels. Forge your tip in then put it over your horn and forge the the blade so the tip is lower. That way when you start forging the bevels it will bring the tip back up.

Ill be there. Ill try to finish the rough forged blank I won in the raffle last year

Cool! I have never seen that "underhand" stock holding technique before!

Fresh Meat here. Sending my check in today

Plain mustard puts a nice dark patina. Dab it on for a pattern or spread it evenly. Only takes about 1/2 hour on O-1 to put a patina on

From a quick google search it was 14 stores in total including home depot.

Bruce: Do you lap the bushings?

I am in thanks for the chance

swagoffroad.com also makes a pretty trick mount for the portaband