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hi guys, my friend and i were toying with the idea of starting a little supply business making rag/pattern/plain micarta-style handle material, and maybe some mokume-gane, and possibly mosaic pins. i was wondering, what do you want to see in a knife supply store? as far as customer service, any...

i totally agree, i have to figure out the clay part too, i mean i have a general idea of how it works, i just need some working practice and some experimenting with clay, which sounds like a whole lot of fun, if its just practice, i wont feel as bad if i screw up! haha

so i just looked it up, and the 1075 from admiral steel has a manganese content of .40 to .90, would that be considered high?

thanks bubba san, i dont honestly know if it is low manganese, its a giant file that i picked up at an estate sale, i was going to draw it out, its 16"x .25"x 1.375" so i thought its almost the perfect size! but i dont know if it has a lot of manganese in it. i actually do also have some 1075 i...

thanks rob, that information does help a whole lot, with or without pictures! the only reason i had a picture is because i found it somewhere else, and copied it onto here! I am sure i will learn what all the japanese terms for the parts of the sword, because i have a feeling ill be asking more...

sorry the pictures are so small, i gotta figure out why my camera keeps doing that!

hey, i recently started looking into tribal knife ideas and philosophies, if you wanna call it that, but pretty much what i came up with is- making functional, well made knives using low tech methods, and trying to re-purpose junk into functional tools. i cant say i use absolutely no power...

rob45- thanks for the help, since i have only done knives, i am used to forging the tip down, like in image a, because when i bevel the cutting edge, the spine will straighten, but making a sword i would just make small adjustments as i am forging on a sunobe modeled after image b? so if im...

thanks murph, but i hope your not a dummy, because what you said is exactly what i thought! haha i didnt know if there was something that everyone else new, besides me, which happens more often than i would like to admit! but a trick that i just saw on this guy jesus hernandes' website is to...

hey guys, i have a question about the process of making a sunobe, i have been wanting to make a wakisashi for a while, and i finally found a piece of W-2 that i think would be about the perfect size. so anyway, i was searching the good ol' internet for information about the process of making a...

i dont have that many pictures of me actually forging or working, but i talked my mom into doing a little photoshoot while i was heat treating a knife blank i bought from USAknifemaker.com, which i was just practicing bevels on, and also my first attempt to make damascus, admittedly, i started...

the first time i saw a socket handle style knife i didnt think much of it, but then i started to get in the minimalist mindset with pretty much everything i was doing, now i cant wait to start one! ill post pictures of it once i have a decent design going, i am going to try to get a nice deep...

I found a (presumably) older straight razor at a garage sale this summer. i was messing around with a strop and thought i would pull it out and get it working! since it is my first and only razor, it is fascinating :drool: it is a columbia cutlery razor, that came in a "premier" company box. i...

"like 1/4 inch or something insane like that." dont get me wrong, im not saying that leaving a lot of material is bad or the wrong way to do it, its just not my style, its not my place to judge peoples techniques, just wanted to clear that up...

it really does depend on your desired look, i try to take it down as close to finished as possible, then do as minimal grinding as possible, but i have heard of people leaving tons of material on, like 1/4 inch or something insane like that. but i figure the less material you remove after...

if you can find a thick firebrick, one of the really soft 3x5 bricks, (i cant exactly remember the dimensions of mine) you can actually drill a hole down the end of the brick and put a hole in the side for a torch, and it works as a small makeshift forge, it gets plenty hot for carbon steel, but...

thanks guys, i got a 5 gallon bucket of parks #50 from maxim oil, it cost me about 110 dollars altogether to get shipped to colorado. i have used it on two knives so far, and seems to be pretty excellent!

also, i need to talk about hardness tests too, so i need to find info on the different tests and how they work

hey guys, im writing a paper for a machining class and its all about the performance and uses of ferrous and non ferrous metals, im looking for referance websites, but like usual, im striking out. Does anyone have any good sites? like i said, i need ferrous and non ferrous metal information, so...

im in unincorporated jeffco. and thanks, im doing an ammo can quench tank so ill need quite a bit, thanks guys!