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I like this http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g436/attila65/kesek%202013/P1070966_zps5f0fa11b.jpg knife very much and need to make a dozen or so for family and some good friends. I guess I'm a big fan of 'Neo' and something that can be used rather than cased and admired. If that picture can...

Use canola oil, as was stated about eight bucks a gallon, it's cheap and it really works. I took an old .50 ammo can and installed a 120V water heater element with a sheet metal cover over the element. When the meat thermometer stuck in the oil says around 130-150 it's quench time. Total cost...

Been lurkin' n learnin' but I have more questions than answers. Can anyone help with the following: What is and why is a slack belt used? What are the various grinds and what are they used for? If you seal a blade in SS foil do you quench it in the foil or remove the foil, thus cooling the...

That is fantastic looking!

I stumbled on this during a search for steel, seems cheap enough but is it? http://www.benzspring.com/garage/round/

What is a good progression of angles to use when starting a new blade?

How good a steel is it? I started making knives because my favorite 'Shrade' and almost all the others are now stainless and made somewhere other than 'here' to me they don't hold a good edge anymore. I like carbon steel but I also very much like Damascus for it's looks. Carbon steels are...

Since I started this thread with a question I have received Fred's 'tool'. (pun intended). I've only got 20 or so blades under my belt and only a couple turned out the way I think they should. I have now used the 'jig' and for me it's the best thing that could have happened, I actually have...

Thanks Rudy that thread answers a lot, I now understand what Ed was saying. Thanks everyone.

PID I'll use has 90-220V input to it for operation and 3-32V output for control of the SSR. I'm concerned that using the 'relay' in the SSR might not work breaking the N for the two heating coils. I'll also have an off/on switch and main fuse with a K thermocouple in the oven to control the PID.

That is beautiful work. Congratulations.

I'm building my own oven, did it before as a 110V unit and it worked ok. But I would like a quicker heat-up time and putting the oven itself together is not too difficult. Same with cutting the channels for the coils and the physical part of wiring the PID, SSR plug and a fuse. But to make...

Any photos around of good examples?

Should arrive in the mail today. I'll enjoy giving it a try, thanks.

I will try this one tonight. Thanks

Nice looking animal. Tell your friend congratulations!

The grinder of choice for all us noob's....Grizzly. This weekend it's getting modified though, I'll pull the motor and use both ends for buffing and drive it with another motor through some pullys to be able to slow it down. I can grind on the flat platen or the wheel the way I've 'adjusted'...

If blades were one sided I'd have it made, but, I also need to grind the 'other' side to match. Being right handed pulling the blade across a belt seems natural and not that difficult. The problem comes in when I start with the 'other' side of the blade and pull with my left hand. Practice...

This one show's how really new to all this I am. What is 'decarb' (decarburization?) and is it a bad thing, good thing or what? I've seen what it is but have no knowledge on the subject. Thanks.

Thanks David. I didn't have a clue before. I was heating to non-magnetic in the forge. Three times normalize prior, three times heat treat and three cycles of tempering at 400.