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You can "nick-pick" a knife to death! Being the maker, it's difficult to NOT see each and every flaw! My advise is focus of the good, and ignore the bad! Not saying completely disregard any flaws that can be improved on the next knife, this is a journey, with each and every knife you make it's...

You got a picture, or can get one? It will definitly help with identifying the problem! From your description, it doesn't sound familiar to me, and I've forge a lot of W2, as well as stock removal of it, it a great steel easy to HT and gets a crazy sharp edge! Awesome knife steel material...

Since I bought my unit, before I knew I could build one, AND mine came with 2 different types of solution, one for HC and one SS, that is exactly what I was gonna say, I do not what the difference is between the two, so no help there, if I can dig it up and find my etcher, I might be able to...

I'm SUBSCRIBED just incase incase you do make a large purchase, I would like to have at least one of those! To make life a bit easier, on an already maxed out mind!!!! Only if you decde to, but don't do it unless you have them all sold! Then again, we can just wait on Tracy.... that shouldn't...

James, Whats the edge treatment on the second 1? It almost looks like it has a Hamon, but its a bit low and the wrong steel for a Hamon, did you do an 'edge quench' on it? Then polish it out, or is it hammer marks playing with the light? Love this one, looks like it has Hard- Use, written all...

MeI'm sorry, I didn't realize this was so huge, I better start paying a lot more attention to how much I write, its like that all the time for me, being able to type decently, I teally don't pay attention to how much is there, I DO PAY ATTENTION TO THE CONTENT! So that the message I'm wanting...

Justin, Your FORGE looks pretty good, tell me are you planning on an atmospheric type burner or The Blown Propane Gas type? Since I have the most experience with the later, I am a little biased, Ok a LOT BIASED, the Gas Blown Forge is the easiest to control, its the easiest to get to...

Sweet Build, subscribed!

Justin, I have a quick question, what have you learned so far about raw materials and the best place to buy them? I don't just me the cheapest, I mean best quality for the money. I've always been curious about the right sized Ti for handles, and that looks like .138" thick? Is that correct...

Karl, I think he means the only one that knows where HIS STEEL comes from! Which would make sense! I'm not sure about the W-2 coming from Germany, I was under the impression that it was US made, I could be wrong, not that it would matter, Aldo's W-2 is AWESOME!!!! As is most of the steel he...

AMEN TRACY! I have to admit this did give me an old feeling, when I was on the "OTHER" forum, but the BOSS DOG to the rescue! We are only human, even the best of us make mistakes, and generally the BEST of us IN us, usually will step up and say so! But to say to blanket this Forum in with all...

Justin, I'm subscribing, but I picked up a little tip a few years ago when doing any kind of thumb jimping, it works INCREDIBLY BETTER, if you use a set of those magnifying visors, you will see so much more detail in the work thats happening as its happening. I was using it to do some fine...

Mr.Eklund, this is an awesome WIP! But this last tip, the way you did this end nut, finial nut, what ever you want call it, is just plain awesome! That's all there is to it. Thank you for doing this WIP, for us guys that aren't as tooled up as we want to be, just yet! As with everyone, its...

Cory, I can't imagine what it would be like to hold that much history in your hands! Being able to hold one of his knives would be such an honor so awesome! I'M ALMOST AT A LOST FOR WORDS! That's just thinking about it, if I actually got close to one, or any of the other greats in (what I...

Ed, Several of the things you've said here are some of my concerns as well, I think one problem they're having i finding makers that are willing to go "under the gun'', to make a usable Ht'd knife in that time frame, as one guy said, "To make knife is 3 hours is just plain Nuts!" I do not know...

I either missed it or jus didn't understand it, so I'll just ask, How did you relieve the liners and what kind of washers did you use at the pivot? It's been on my mind hard to finish a slip joint, I could not for the life of me get the liners relieved without buggering up the entire...

PERSONALLY, I THINK ITS PERFECTLY FINE TO "BRAG" WHEN YOU FIND THAT SCREAMING GOOD DEAL!!!!! I DID THE SAME THING LAST WEDNESDAY! ONLY MY WIFE, "GETS IT", now she DOESN'T understand why i would "need" 2 drill presses, so I haven't pushed that one just yet, mine is on the verge of being done, so...

Ken, you get the materials, and come on up , I've been wanting to try my hand at that since the first time I laid my eyes on Mocume'! I know the basics of how to make it, just never took the plunge! I guess there is so much to knife making, you cn spend your entire life and never do...

So are you talking about the firebrick, you have to be carefully when drilling the firebrick, primarily with FB, all ya got to do is get a hole started, then take a rasp to it, the rasp will remove material very quickly and very easily, make sure you form the hole to match the hole you need...

Aaron, Generally the tip is the thinnest part of the blade so it is usually the 1st to come up to temp. That is provided the entire chamber is at temp., I would ONLY use this method with the simplest HC steels in the 10XX SERIES,like 1084, and those below it, 1080, 1075, 1070, etc. Do keep in...