Recent content by L. McAlpine

I'm sorry for not responding sooner but I've been away. The knife was made for a friend who wanted to give a gift to a lady he worked with in the local 4H club when she retired and that was what I came up with. thank you for the compliment. Larry

for what it's worth I believe the Cutco knives are made with 440A

My first mosaic, 52100,15N20,& 1084

John, in the body of the note I said that #6 used parks 50 but in the list I added #6 again and forgot to change the dt48 to p50 as I copied and pasted the first part of them all. Thanks for catching that. I think your correct that most of them are pretty consistent except for #6. I corrected...

I finished resanding the pieces sent to me by "busted knuckles" and retested them. The results came out pretty close to the same as before, but I think I can see why. After sanding to 800 I can see shadows in the steel, like a cloud or hamon. I don't know how it happened but I drew a line around...

i received the squares yesterday and was able to test today, but I think I will have to do some sanding to try and get them a little flatter. I could see movement on some when testing and on some the results were way different on the same piece such as #6 which went from 32 to 65.5 HRC. I have...

I'll give you the results as soon as possible after I get them. Larry

I'd be happy to do some RC testing for you. Larry

Your welcome. I recieve so much from this and other forums that it's a privilege to be able to contribute in some way. if I can ever help out again I'll do my best to do what I can. Larry

Test is complete I just recieved the 1095 pieces from David and have done the tests on them. The first thing I did was to hand sand them(that way I wouldn't creat any heat) to 800 on both sides. then I ran some tests on my test plate 7 times to make sure everthing was seated and working...

I have a tester and would be happy to test them for you. Larry

I'd love to have that piece of wood, Thanks

I also bought one after Bruce recommended his ( thanks Bruce), but I bought mine from Grizzly because I live in Bellingham at their store location. I love it. It's easy to use and I just yesterday got the results from a reputable Testing company here in Bellingham where I gave them the test...

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/4523/dscf1162.jpg i don't know if the picture will work but it is of some fillet knives that i thought i would do out of some saw blades from a saw mill that a friend gave me( except for the 2nd one down, it's 15n20) . He told me that they were very close to...

Could this be what your thinking of Could this be what your thinking of. It's at Riverside Machine Shop and it's called MIKIE'S" SOLDERING FIXTURE http://www.riversidemachine.net/item349581.ctlg