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Wayne was at Batson's promoting Knife Dogs for sure. Take a look. I echo Wayne's appreciation of Knife Dogs.

Hey, it's his call. You gave him what he wanted in a big way. Unbelievable filework. My hat's off to him for carrying it.

Looks like it is made for a soldier in a Holy War. That's what we are in whether we want to believe it or not. Any Christian soldier would be honored to carry that in to battle. Only problem I see is if the guy gets captured he won't live long carrying that knife.

If it gets any deeper in this thread we are all going to drown.:9:

Well I made a test blade of 1/8 thick O-1 tool steel. Heated in forge at 1500 degrees until non-magnetic then held it for 3 minutes. Quenched in fresh canola oil heated to 120 degrees. Tempered in wife's oven at 400 degrees for 1 hour. Repeated temper cycle. The blade is hard and will hold...

They are all extremely nice. The sheath on the clip point hunter is what got my attention the most.

Very nice Robert. He should be real happy with that.

Very nice Wade. I like your use of the wrought iron too.

Really nice Robert.

Awesome!!

Wow!!!! Awesome!!

The whole package is awesome!!!

Boss, making some test blades is next on my list of things to do. Working is getting in the way of a lot of things:biggrin:

I just made a trip to Jantz. It is about an hour away from me to get more steel. I have to get these blades done. I will watch everything very closely. Tai, do you think the oil may have been bad?

Tai, the oil is about a year old but it was clear. You could see the bottom. It smelled ok. It may need replacing. I don't know. Planned on getting some canola oil any way.

Thanks for the replies. I am going to use the wife's oven to temper the next batch. I will use an oven thermometer as well. I have a thermometer on the forge (a PID with a K thermocouple). I would try to soak longer but it is real hard to try to control the forge temperature. I started...

I use O-1 quite a bit especially on tactical blades. I went to test a blade that had just been finished and it would not hold a good edge. I didn't do anything different that I know of. All of the blades in that batch had the same problem. I will give you my procedure. I use a forge to...

Looks really nice. I am tempted to try it.

Aldo and my brother Harry running up the price of the steel I was about to buy. Aldo giving some guys a hard time and taking their money. Everyone left happy! My friends Ray Kirk and Dr. James Batson having coffee on Sunday morning Ray explaining things to James and myself. A feather...

Being an old fat man I wear braces to keep my pants up. Belts just don't do it. However I fish and hunt and would love to have a belt to attach knives, pliers, cell phones, pistols, etc on. You guys got any ideas? I'm serious. This is a real problem