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He was talking to me. I got his PM and responded to it.

I know people will look at it and say "WOW! That's a really nice knife." Some will see the flaws, some won't. I don't want to hide my flaws. I want to be able to point them out and have the customer say "I don't see them" or "That's OK, they're barely noticeable." What I don't want is for...

Expect this forge to be available VERY soon. Second prototype was finished last night and some should be available for sale next weekend.

"Wedding Knife in Purpleheart" CPM-S35VN partial tang construction Purpleheart handle Titanium guard 7 3/4" edge length .05" thick 13" OAL Single sided bevel at 15° RHC 60 CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE This is a wedding cake knife for my Sister-in-law's wedding last weekend. She wanted...

I love this forum! I posted this elsewhere and didn't get near this response.

If you skip the DC transformer and user a rectifier instead, you will get 60hz pulsed DC signal. If you install a capacitor it will be smoothed, without the capacitor it is pulsed. It should work much better. An 50 amp rectifier is $1.59 on eBay, or you can use four diodes for about $1.10.

Just in case anyone cares, here is the final product. I did learn not to use my titanium lead in the bath when electro-etching. It was too aggressive and ate through the paint, leaving some pitting. Otherwise, it worked very well.

Thanks for the reference! I'd like to add a little that hasn't made it to the instructions yet. I've learned that pulsed DC works better for etching. Yes, a constant DC current will etch, a pulsed DC current will etch sharper and more quickly. In lieu of making your own pulsed etcher...

Hope you don't mind my posting here. Here's plans I wrote up a while ago and it works very nice. DIY 9v battery Titanium anodizer Simple project, build a Titanium anodizer from 9v batteries. Plenty of vids on youtube, but here are some simple pictures. Here's the whole setup...

Working on this for a wedding present. This was a test of the spray urethane clear gloss and needle scribing. It turned out great, except for some corners that flaked off, noticeably on the "r" in Cory and Patricia. Any advise?

If you were there, everyone was wearing a name tag! Mental note, possibly to put on next years agenda. Group picture clearly showing everyone's name tag. Does anyone have a picture of Graham holding the anvils?