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I don't want the pitting though. I'm really wanting something to just make it blacker where it's not hardened.

I take deposits for these reasons. Most of my orders are for people who want something specific. I work 2 other jobs and don't really have time to make something just to make it. The only times I do are when I've got 1 order and I can work on another at the same time just to do it. I usually...

question: What happens if you do a ferric chloride etch and then cold blue? I'm asking this because at the last minute, I've decided that I'm not going to handle a knife. I'm going to leave it plain steel. It's 1084. Only the blade has been heat treated. I know that if I want to blacken...

I do use a hot plate to keep it at temp...it just takes it forever to heat up. I change out the peanut oil about every six months, so that's maybe every 7 or 8 knives, so 14 to 16 actual quenchings. But my wife's stupid cat likes to drink the stuff too. It disappears faster than it should. :p...

Wow I'm finding that to be absolutely true these days. I use to HT with an open forge, probably over heating a few blades along the way etc.,.. since making my mini fire brick forge I've seen very little scale at all. It's soooo much easier to clean up. A very fine layer of black color is...

Etched and stone washed

small wheel attachment would be the best answer, and I don't even have one! I too use a 1x30 and I've found ways of making it work. I can use a file to shape finger guards and then I found some 400 cheapo sanding drums for dremel on ebay. I chuck them up in the drill press instead of the...

got a couple more finished up.

I don't know, I just always have. I heard it somewhere a long time ago and just have always done it like that.

I use to do a 5 minute soak, clean it up, soak again for 5 to 10 minutes, clean it up....then decided one day just to try leaving it in there. I now soak in ferric for about 15 to 20 minutes. Rinse with windex and water to stop the reaction, then go straight into the tumbler for stone wash (if...

I did 2 small knives of 1084 on Saturday. The good thing about 1084 is that if you already HT something like 1095 or 0-1, it's easy as pie. I brought mine up to a dull cherry red, checked with a magnet, kept it at that temp for a few more minutes and quenched in peanut oil. I've seen several...

You might see from the other thread, but I just built my first 2 brick forge which is very similar to the Atlas for about $50 total. I've been using a less than ideal charcoal forge for a while now. As I don't plan on doing anything larger, this should work well for me. I'm actually blown...

and after a soak in some ferric and taking a tumble with some rocks from the playground...

Yeah, I actually called Britax and they told me it is food safe once it dries completely. It leave behind beeswax and churuba wax....and I've heard and imagine renwax is the same.

After temper

I don't what was different, but the first two small knives I heat treated with this ting worked great! Did them both in about 15 to 20 minutes. Got both up to a dull cherry, checked with a magnet, held it there for a bit and quenched. They got hard. Tempered to a straw color at 400 degrees...

It's a good thing you didn't use Ed's name, I've heard he can teleport to your location and eat you for doing stuff like that :happy: Anyway, I'm a little surprised as well. I wonder if the heat let the wax melt off and the rain wash it away? My personal experience, being in 300% humid...

Or perhaps my hair dryer forge in the backyard is getting WAY hotter than I realized it is...and way hotter than it should be. Makes me wonder if I've been overheating some knives.

i've had the best results with gator belts for machine finish. I usually take it up to the equivilent or 400 or 600. But recently I've been doing that same process and then hand sanding at 400 grit. It's really easy to get the scratches out like that and you don't have to go up through several...

Managed to get a 1/8" thick old file to heat up past non-magnetic on my test burn this past saturday. Perhaps it just takes a lot longer to heat up than I thought it would