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It didn't happen quickly, but thank you. It took three years of messing up a lot of stuff to make knives and sheaths for me that I thought were close to being good. But I do have to adimit Steven, your post with the video of hand sanding did help tremendously on this knife

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Thanks Dwayne

I wanted to thank you guys for your help. KT, Paul Long and Dwayne Puckett talked to me when I started with my first botched sheath thread. Helped out a lot. Took a while to find the little things that make it better, but it helped a lot.

Good job. The craftsman can make good knives just like any other grinder, you just have to get use to it. Eddie - if you can wait and save for a more powerful grinder, thats what I would do. But like you saw, you can make knives with a craftsman...

That helps a lot thanks! What kind of ceramics do you like? And what can you tell me about the weights?

So I have seen a lot of talk about just types of belts. I have been saving for a KMG. And realized that I have no idea what any of the belts people talk about for the 2 x 72 grinders. What do I need to know about the different types of belts? ( I have only used the Ceramic, AO, and...

I am curious to see what people will say about this. I have been wanting to do stainless really really bad.

So the first two pieces are from just normalization and no hardening afterwards? I was always under the impression that you would want to normalize, then harden, and check the grain. Then take a separate piece of the same steel and then normalize twice and then harden and then check the grain...

I talked to Aldo on Friday. He doesn't have any. I wish I could get a hold of some bar stock W2

Josh - I hear you. Scale is a pain in my opinion. Plus you start hearing people talk about decarb and whatever. What it comes down to for me is what makes my life easier working on the knives? By preventing as much scale as possible it limits my time at the grinder after HT, but what it...

Gunnison River: Colorado USA

So I tried both ATP641 and a thin wash of Santinite. I find that the Santinite works way better for the thermal cycle process. The ATP641 flakes off when cooling and needs to be re-applied every single time you take the knives out of the oven.

I am so jealous! I have been searching for some Al like that for quench plates. I do not want to pay the $65 plus shipping for some......

I use heavy duty, card stock for my patterns. Plexiglass is also a good idea that I saw. If you want to do a metal pattern make sure it is a super hard pattern. That way if you wanted it to be exact you can grind up to the pattern and not mess up the pattern much.

Thermal cycle temps are 1600, 1500, 1400, 1300. Leaving the blade in only until the oven hits the desired temp and then out. The blades are soaking for about 4 hours and some of the scale is starting to rub off, so it might be just normal scale from what some of my maker friends are telling...

So I have found that I get this "thin scale" when I thermal cycle my blades. I put the blades in, hit the temp and then when it hits temp take them out and hang them so they can cool enough for me to touch and then continue again. This scale is really brittle, it starts to crack and then...

Grouping 3 knives here for sale. First one: 1/4" thick O-1, 5" blade, 11" over all length. Black micarta scales, with stainless corby bolts. Custom camo Cerakoting. Comes with a scout style sheath that is laced with kangaroo. $350 plus shipping USPS, paypal only, USA only...

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