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Very nice work you have there. welcome to the forum.

Anvil?

Not my dryer but I did put a DPDT switch on my Hot water heater and use it as the power for my grinder. I can also turn off the heater when Im out of town for extended stays as well.

That's one amazing piece of work there Mr Bump! The new owner is a luck man. Rusty

Something is defiantly not right. You checked it in several places to get the hardness readings right? And the right Scale on the Tester? No offense intended by the questions but we have all missed things like that before.

I think Im In love with Nathans Forge!! LOL Made this one out of an old Propaine tank.

I was looking around for a way to set up my DeWalt and found this thing. Has anyone used it or tried it? http://www.absoluteengineering.com/vertikut/index.htm

+1 on the donation thing. Ive made them for several auction and Raffle type fund raisers. Masonic Lodges and AKA, Our state NRA chapter has asked me to make one this year as well. Gets you some orders and folks get to see your knives. Rusty

This is my HT for 154cm and ATS-34, I put them in the oven when it gets to about 600*F it ramps to 1250 and holds for 20 min. After the 20 min it ramps up to 1950 for a full 45 minutes. after that I Plate quench or on small blades I will Oil Quench. (If your gonna cryo do it here) Then...

You can do with out the green wire, it is normaly a case ground on most appliances.

Nothing to realy worry about. It does that sometimes and sometimes it does not. Depending no the atmosphere you get differant colors.

I live and grew up not more than 30miles from old Washington where that knife was forged. While normal school kids had field trips to Museums we went to there to see the famous James blacks forge, and by the way there is almost always a Blacksmith there when the park is open. And some say Mr...

Recently there are a few that have influenced knife making. Busse kinda made combat tactical a house hold name. Doc Hagen, Folders are amazing to say the least since the early 70's Don Fogg has done it all twice.

(James)Jim Black(top of the list) was the maker of the Knife Jim Bowie made famous.

You didn't monkey things up. I did it by the color of the steel the way I always do, I just wanted to start with the steel in a semi same state. Now one may have gotten a few degrees more than another but they were all pretty much the same. And as far as I can tell by using a file all of them...

Deker, Good question, I guess I could have used the kiln to do this as well. I was very careful not to let them overheat. they never actually went in my forge just at the door, I was acting like a rotisserie and moving them around to make sure they never got too hot and each piece heated as...

If you cant find any give me a holler. Ive got several feet of it.

The finished product ready to be sent to get rockwell tested. four set of two, one 1084 one 1090 One set in Water for a control point One set in Parks #50 One set in McMaster Carr 11 sec quench One set in Vet grade Mineral Oil. And my part is done. Hey Darron you want...

More normalizing, last heat and cool. Setting up the oven, I put my oven to 1100 degrees to soak for 20 min to get the steel settled to a even heat in the oven. then up to 1450F for the final soak for 15 minutes. after that it's in the quench. the pics got out of order but you get the idea.

Ok so Here are some Pics of what I did. The first is the steel I started with a bit of 1090 and some 1084 I had In the second I had cut them with my bandsaw Third I skiped ahead and drilled holes in each for wire to hold the pieces with when I quenched them Fourth is normalizing the...