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Welcome Don, nice to see you found your way over here too :D.

Mike everyone I know uses Culpepper & Co.

After this I am really liking this anti scale compound, wish I found this stuff a long time ago, More to come this week.

So today I went over to my friend Gene Martin's house and used his heat treat oven to heat treat this knife. I tried something new for me I used a anti scale compound from Brownells and was quite impressed with it. So lets see some pics, Here the knife has been heated to 500ºF and already has...

Seth, going from 220 to 110 you may loose a lot of power something else to consider is the amps of the 110 motor. You may not have a large enough circuit for it and would need an electrician anyway. Me I would see what an electrician would charge you to run a 220 line, maybe cheaper and less...

Thats great Bob, soon you will be back making Damascus spike knives ;).

You may have not remembered as it was almost done and was nekked, I sent it to Paul Long right after Blade West.

Bing that was the knife I had at Blade West Last year.

Hi Bob glad to see you getting busy again, I hope your health has improved? Well I just had a friend build me a forge and he did something a bit different. He used Kaowool but saturated it with 3000º castable. This forge is using a 2 venturi burners. I have a castable blown forge as well and...

Hey Bing Thanks :D, Well lets see if I can answer your question, well that block started out 1 1/4" wide X 1 5/8" long X 1 1/4" tall. I forged it down to around 5/8" thick. I then forged the handle out to the thickness I wanted and length and then I bumped the bolster down to around 1/2" then...

Now I start shaping the bolsters using files, Here is where we are now. I have surface ground the tang located the pin holes and have shaped the front of the bolsters. Also had the wife include the beautiful stag I got from Alpha Knife Supply for this build, Hopefully I will get this heat...

Checking to see how the forging is going against a sketch I did on my anvil, Rod has been removed and I am working on the profile, Here I wanted to take a peek at what we had so far I also used my CNC Mill to set the front and back of the bolsters so they are even,

OK build time, first up I forged out the "W" Pattern billet for another knife but had plenty for this knife. I had showed this billet earlier but here is the pic anyway, Here we started with this really compressed "W" pattern, Here we have a few forging pics, Cooking the blade...

Hi all, I was contacted sometime back by a fellow forum member ( Jim Johnson ) to build him a custom knife. We talked quite a bit he was intially wanting maybe a hunter and asked to see some pics, I directed him to one I just completed to show the damascus pattern to see if he liked something...

+2 Exactly what I was thinking.

That turned out great Billy, I also like the guard guard and handle choice.

Great looking knives Bing and good luck testing

Cliff great tutorial and thanks for sharing. I do have a question about the choice of a serrated wheel, why a serrated rather than a solid wheel? I am getting ready to do this to my machine and I was going to use a solid, so maybe you can point me in the right direction. Also I was thinking of a...

Bruce this is going to be fun to watch can't wait to see more.

WOW Mark that looks sweeeet :D.