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Most places propane is cheaper. Here is the oposite..Im no more than 10 minutes away from some of the best coal in the country..Im right in the heart of coal country..A 40lb tank of propane is $40, I can get almost a half ton of coal for the same ammount..Good, metalurgical grade coal..Most of...

Desert ironwood and curly maple but I also like G10(really like orange and orange/black)..Lots of Burl woods a nice too..Desert ironwood really does it for me though..

Most were never really L6 to start with..They were carbon steels much closer to 1080 +2% nickle or 15n20..Many were also something like 8670(which is easily confused with L6)...Ive seen a bunch of tests ran on them and only one Ive seen came close to real L6.. I use to think the same thing...

I made mine where the blade dosnt touch the tube wall..It rests on another piece of flat mild steel inside the tube..i was afraid of that very thing you just mentioned..

Please not trying to hijack your thread or anything karl but on the note of using forges to heat treat with this is what we use to heat treat..Its a standard two burner forge with a homemade muffle..the muffle extends out the back and front of the forge so theres no forge atmosphere insdie with...

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Ok here it is..A camp style tomahawk forged from 1045 with a welded in 1086M cutting bit..The cutting edge is 2 3/4" wide and the head is about 6 3/4" long..Edge hardened, poll heat treated and double tempered..Aged patina, Curly ash haft.. More goes into making one of these than most would...

Ok, your haft will look like this..Dark brown and kinda fuzzy.. When you wet down the handle with aqua fortis it will likely make all the tiny loose fibers stand up(whiskers) .. Here you start back in with the steel wool..By this point you can see the curl standing out, darker than the rest of...

Lisa did the handle in front of the TV this evening.. This haft is curly ash..It came from dunlap woodcrafts..Waynes good people to buy from.. It has been hand sanded down to 220 grit... Please remove the dog marks from the top and bottom of the haft :grumpy: Ive never understood why you would...

Ok, here we go witht he famous "Gun Blue & Bleach" patina.. This si what you need..Your work piece degreased, a bottle of cold blue and a bottle of cheap bleach.. Get it blued up and let it dry a minute or two.. Here is where people do things differently..Sme etch 5 minutes,some 20 minutes..I...

Since this hawk has a poll(hammer) its gonna get heat treated too..The poll is brought up to heat and since it is 1045 its gonna get water quenched..then its tempered back just like a hmmer..Gold with just a hint of purple creeping in the edges.. The edge only is brought up to temp and quenched...

Well here we go...The high carbon bit has been added to the cleft and hammered shut..Brought up to red heat and fluxed.. Two welding heats later and a clean up..This is what we have..A good solid weld..You can also see where we ground some material away from the two lead edges..The softer 1045...

Another shot of the ears being forged down.. Here is the final drift ran thru the eye up to the correct depth..these drifts are manufactured and are very close to most produced tomahawk hafts out there..We use Dunlap woodcrafts fro blanks..I cant recommed them enough.. Here we swage the body...

The body of this one will be 1045 but we will be adding a highr carbon steel cutting bit..The haft will probably be curly ash stained with Aqua Fortis.. First we will start with a 1" square piece of 1045..You can heat treat the poll just like you would a regular hammer head.. We mark the...

Curly maple dyed with Aqua Fortis and Desert Ironwood..

I normally shoot for about 1440-1450 and a 5 minute soak for these steels..W1,W2 and 1086M as well as files when we use them..Ive also found that most of these (good quaility) file steels will produce a very nice, very active hamon with this heat treat with almost no effort..Like Don Hanson told...

blacks diamond files arnt really W2..Ive seen several spec tests results done on them..Its a fairly basic carbon steel but with way more carbon than W2..Upwards of 1.27% on the ones Ive seen.. Something like this..(credit to Matt Bower for this reading) C:1.28 | Mn:0.34 | P: 0.016 | S:0.015 |...

Yea, its a real twist but it also ha some chisel work..Ill take pics of the next one show yall' how its done..Its a "chisel/cut"...Twist/Forge"..Chisel/cut"...Un-twist process...

Thats a diamondback two burner forge..

Would you suggest a "D" sized bit(.246) or a 15/64" @ (.234) Would that 15/64" be to much for the reamer to handle? Im concerned that the "D" bit may be to big to start with..