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    Forging bevels

    Doug, Thanks for your response... really want nice clean forging lines but it doesnt seem like I am getting any better at the more I practice...I really need to take a class!!!
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    Forging bevels

    hey guys I am having trouble forging my bevels... I forge one side and then turn it over and work on the other side, and the side I just flipped over looks flat without any bevel line to speak of AND I am making the metal bow up like a bananna any tips or tricks or vids explaining...
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    best steel for a chopper/machete

    ok I need to make me another chopper
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    best steel for a chopper/machete

    thats all kinds of bad ass bro...what steel is it? 5160?
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    best steel for a chopper/machete

    differentially heat treated 5160 is hard to beat... I am working on 1084 right now and loving it BUT 52100 would also be a sweet choice and its a bit cheaper than CPM 3v (love that stuff!)
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    My Knife New Years Resolution - What is yours?

    Mine is build me a propane forge that has the temp reading on it AND to build me NWG.. and I wanna build a straight razor
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    Heat Treat FAIL !!!! Help !!!

    Water quench is sooo naughty...vapor barrier and such Lee Neves Maxim Oil 817-654-4456
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    Kydex Carrier for Strider Axe

    that is all kinds of awesome
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    CPM M4 hardness

    IIRC it is run around 59-60 I love the stuff...cuts forever and plenty tuff for even large blades
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    best steel for a chopper/machete

    breaking WHAT 1/4" blades bro?? I have 5160 camp blades that were beaten through stumps into rocks with no worries PERSONALLY I would suggest 3/8" S7...your just not gonna break that stuff
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    15 ram horn hunters

    Love the Rams horn...gotta get me some of that and give it a try
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    Let us know if you want a "basics of heat treating" set of posts from Cashen

    yes please... If possible, a VERY easy to follow set of intructions on repairing over heated steel We miss you Kevin!!!!
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    Forging some Stainless Damascus!!

    what kind of stainless is what he is wondering Randy...errr at least I think thats what he asking I am curious as well...Stainless San Mai is something that I really wanna play with once I get a gas forge
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    Need HT for 3 small 440c blades

    Thanks guys!!! I really need me a oven
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    Need HT for 3 small 440c blades

    Hey guys...I need 3 blades heat treated.. They are all 3 made from 440C cant afford to send this small a batch to Petes or it would be on its way Let me know your price! D
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    A visit to Alabama Damascus

    ok it would be fun to hang out there for a day...
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    Proper heat Treat on 1095 or Just voodoo

    Ed...Thanks for posting that bro...Kevin steered me towards 1084 due to the involved HT and now I am even more glad I stopped playing around with it and went with the 1084fg from Aldo... Bubba...I thought the different or Utsuri was due to different thickness of clay on the blade? so its the...
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    DuraBake ?

    Cerakote is more durable?? hmm I need something to refinish one of my EDC pistols, wonder if I could spray it and my EDC blade the same color...SWMBO says I need to match my colors better :)
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    HT 52100 on a regular basis

    petes heat treat bro...nice people
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    Hello from Seagrove, NC.....

    welcome!!
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