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Greetings, The Texas Knifemakers' Guild - Region 1 - Will conduct it's annual general membership meeting on the 30th of January 2016, in Jarrell Texas. For complete information visit our Facebook page. Texas Knifemakers' Guild Even if you can't make the meeting, visit our page anyway to...

A leather belt is nice... but they stretch a lot! Felt has 0 stretch!

Check out "The Sharp Machine" http://www.thesharpshoponline.com/ I've owned just about every knife sharpening gimmick there has ever been.... Until I found this!!! Once you've used one... you will never using anything else! Lee Haag

Greetings, After taking my first knives from the oven and sanding them with 180, I've noticed some splotches that are not sanding out. Could the coloring difference be that the temper is different? My D2 recipe: heat to 1100 hold 5min heat to 1500 hold 5 min heat to 1860 hold 20 min (should...

That was the problem... Thanks!!!

Got my fingers crossed Good advice.

Greetings, Whats really important is the fact that you are making your own knives... Get what you can afford... and what power is available...

Greetings, Just got my first oven... a Paragon KM14D, 120v, 14amps, 1600 watts. It's on a 20amp circuit by it's self. The instructions are pretty clear for firing. Well it starts heating and will go for a few hundred degrees and stop... then it starts to cool... I tried it 3 different times...

Got what I was looking for... thanks anyway.... Only use the gas if foil is not able to cover the part... Lee Haag

Greetings, These are from pieces I got from Mr. Cunningham at the Hammer In. This is some really hard stuff, anything but hand sanding burns.... Still working on the fit n finish.... Lee Haag

Greetings, Anyone use an inert gas in there oven? Is if a viable alternative to foil? Better? Worse? Come one guys someone out there has to have some experience with it? Lee Haag Lightning Sharp.

did you ever get your Ken Onion? Lee Haag

Greetings, I'm going to use foil for the first time on some D2 I've got. That stuff isn't cheap....wow! anyway how much do you use when you wrap a blade? and use pliers to crimp the edges...? Do you put a wood shaving inside before it goes in the oven? Do you leave it in the foil when it gets...

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Greetings, I've read several posts where thick aluminum plates are used to quench air quenched steel such as D2. I was wondering if anyone had tried other materials, like marble or granite. I have some surfaced 2" thick slabs of granite that would fit just right in my press.... any ideas? Lee...