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Good looking first. Keep it up and always apply what you learned from your current knife to your next one. Keep posting them.

Well... she's been critical and quenched and in the first draw right now. I ended up using a welding rod can to quench in and it worked out well, I set it in a tub of absorbent stuff (kitty litter) in case of a spill and to help hold it upright because of the smallish diameter of the can. I...

And I have one. I'll have to relocate my ammunition Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

...and I now have a gallon of canola oil in my possession so I only need something to put it in.

The turkey fryer is a great idea. However I'm sure the guys on first shift may have some questions about me lugging one into the shop. I'll most likely do that when I get a setup at my shop though.

That's about what I had in mind...I have to come up with some pipe that size.. We have gallon buckets here that we keep grease in, I may go with that if it's deep enough and I can find an empty one...or I may just go buy one...

I may postpone my heat treat until next week and pick up some canola oil over the weekend. I'm going to have to come up with something to put the canola oil into for the quench if I'm going point down. Perhaps a piece of tubing welded to a plate if I can find one big enough to facilitate moving...

What kind of grinder is it? I've had similar problems with my little kalamazoo which ended in modifications...

...into oil...see what I did there? Anyway, I have a 1095 blade beveled to roughly. 045 thickness at the edge at 240 grit and I clayed it up for a hamon (fingers crossed).I am doing my HT at work since we have all the necessary equipment and my supervisor is okay with it. The concerns that I...

I came across this at work and took a picture to reference later and thought it may come in handy for some forum members too so I'm sharing. It's a chart of different colors of carbon steel at different temperatures. I'msure it would serve as a good baseline but there are bound to be...

Thanks. I see the knives you guys are making and realize how outclassed I am and then get compliments from you....it gives me hope that I will be able to do what you guys are doing one day.

My previously mentioned belt grinder didn't allow me to get anything resembling decent plunge lines because once the bevel was deeper than the thickness of the belt, the knife would bottom out on the plate behind the belt (platen? Still learning nomenclature) so I got a .125 thick x 1.125 wide...

That's a beautiful knife. I have some voids in the burl of the knife I'm currently finishing with tung oil, should I try and fill them with sealant or will just sealing the surface be sufficient? I like this, I'm learning stuff...

I think I'm going to check into tru oil, it sounds like serious business. I am using tung oil and I have no complaints but if there's something that will do a better job, I see no reason not to use it instead.

Maybe it's because I'm new to knifemaking but I find myself needing stuff I don't have quite a lot. I am also not a rich man by any stretch of the imagination so I generally improvise or modify what I have. Does anyone else do this? Is there anything you improvised years ago that you still use...

When you say "seal", do you mean polishing until it has closed the pores (don't really know how to word that. I hope you get my meaning) or do you mean "seal" as in tung oil or whatever? If it is the latter, what would you suggest?

Not finished just yet, still needs the tung oil to cure and an edge but I'm excited about how the handle turned out so I'm sharing. O1 blade, cherry burl and buffalo horn scales with brass pins and lanyard tube. The polish is better than #2 but could be better and there's some goop from the...

Sweet deal on the olive wood! I hope this isn't one of those learning experiences where I made a beautiful handle (pics coming shortly) and the wonderful state of Mississippi and her brutal humidity kill it ....because I was impatient.

Thanks for the reply Ed. I didn't see it until I already had liners epoxied to the scales (impatience and it is a beautiful burl...impatient couldn't wait). My daughters like to come out to the shop and watch and by "watch" I mean distract me with little kid chatter while I'm epoxying liners to...

I thought of another tip...since I epoxied some scales today.. Put wax on anything you don't want epoxy stuck to and you can just pick it off when it is cured. I use wood finishing wax but I would imagine that paraffin would work as well....also wait for the epoxy to cure before removing it. The...