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Here is a finished guard. I am rethinking everything I do as my right side no longer functions well...so the fluted guard surfaces is much easier on me than a bunch of hand polishing i can no longer achieve. I think it still provides some nice eye candy. For the same reason I left my fullers as...

Exactly.

McMaster-Carr...I bought the "oversize" material in 3/8...It came in at .475 thick....that's a lot o' free material...lol.

Also....it is a delight on the beltgrinder....

Thanks Daniel. Look how close this matches my gold wedding ring. I absolutely love the color! I had to put fresh carbide cutters in the machine as the material kept cutting undersize on the setup piece. It sounds like I'm cutting steel....hope the tool wear is not costly....

Ummm...got my alumimum Bronze in today....lol. Yeah...it's tough. Not super hard but resists cutting....I'm using the speeds and feeds that seems to work well for A-2 tool steel and it seems in the zone. Sands nice, polishes nice. The color is FABULOUS....a pale gold/copper look.No yellow...

Nice lines Joe! That is turning out real nice.

I suppose they may not be enough to tell right where the RC is....but surely good enough to tell you if you blew a heat treat or not?

super clean job Dale.

Thanks Ed! I'm going to give it a whirl. I wonder if the "brass has no class" comes from decades of cheap brass/rose wood items from Pakistan and India? If I see a knife with brass that's immediately where my mind goes...which is a shame. Brass is a good metal.

Years ago I made parts out of Aluminum Bronze. As I recall it was miserable to cut/machine...but polished up good. Was more silvery colored than brass...was MUCH stronger than brass. And, had no lead in it like most of the free machining brasses out there. Should be a step up over brass in...

i wanna wear that to Wal-Mart...get the biddies a'cluckin'....

Yep...that is a nice looking well designed knife.

Chris...I actually do not know. I have a rockwell hardness tester. I personally would not want to do heat treating without some means of testing...especially on blades that are being sold. Perhaps experienced guys that have proven their process do not need to test. Since a Rockwell tester is...

Just sold my son a mini-14...he wouldn't buy it unless I sold him some ammo too...lol.