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That would be fine. The best advise I could give is, take a class. I went to the GRS school for a week. It's really worth it. There's just so much to learn.

Thanks everybody.

Between 60 and 100 hours, this one about 80.

Yes I did, thanks MK

Thanks everybody. And thanks for the kudos Ed, I'm afraid that knife is already on the way to the owners house. I guess I'll have to make more.

I did a tutorial on this once, it all went away when photo bucket started charging. Essentially abalone is a large thin dome shaped shell. In order to form a hidden tang handle I laminated the nested shells together in seven layers of shell. I then formed a box with four sides by mitering the...

My latest build is a Blue Amber and Abalone Camp Knife. The blade is heat blued 1095 and 15N20. Blade length is 5 1/2 and the overall length is 10 inches.

Great job, way to go.

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Wait, he had a day off the last time we saw him.

Congrats

I think the only application where it makes a lot of sense is when tack welding bars together for damascus. It only needs to hold until the forge weld is done. The advantagees are that you aren't introducing mild steel to the billet, that way you don't have to grind anything off after the forge...

That's not the worst thing that could happen. I think that any accident in the shop that doesn't cost you an important part of your body are not so bad. A full 5 % of the customers in my sharpening shop (carpenters) are missing some fingers. Mostly from table saws. The best we can do is buy...

There's going to be something special for our Vets. I will keep you posted.

They are all He's checking his list. Are you guys on this site while at work? Vet's especially like the 1911 Combat Survivor Bowie

Santa's been working late getting 1911 Combat Survivors ready to be shipped out for Christmas. Santa sharpens as the CNC mill engraves the blades. Lots of colors for all the good little boys and girls. The Tormek puts a razor edge on the 154 CM blades. The magazine compartments are all...

We flipped the "tiles" 90 degrees to show the end grain of the billet on the side of the finished blade. We heated it up to less than forge welding temperature and did some compression presses to close up all the gaps between the steel tiles. Then we gave it a little flux and did the weld...

I have no doubt that Cerakote is tougher than Duracote, I tested them both here in my shop. The extra hassle just wasn't worth it for me. If I was doing one knife once in a while it would be fine but for 70 at a time the logistics were just impossible for me. I'm just not set up to bake that...

I use Duracote and I actually get quite a bit more shelf life than a month. It's the hardener that goes bad, if it does you just get more hardener. I can get about a dozen large knives from 4 ozs. with pretty thick coverage (two coats). I just got done spraying 70 of my 1911 Combat Survivors for...