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I made several knives around 8 years ago from 1095 and 5160 steel, heat treated with 130 deg transmission fluid. I have not made any since and decided to start the hobby again. From my reading on the internet, the quenchant to use is canola oil or a true quenchant oil like Parks. What are the...

Excellent blades! Did you start out with a stock piece of steel or forge from a scavaged piece of steel? Did you hot cut any of the handle or pretty much forged to shape?

Here it is with a cord wrapped handle. Normalized once and differentially heat treated with triple quench/temper. I was a bit in a hurry to heat treat, so I quenched day 1 by letting the blade sit in the oil for 1 hour betweem heat treats, on day 2, tempered in oven at 350 for 2 hours then sit...

what do you mean by dress the edges? why dress the edges?

about 5 years ago i bought an anvil from ? old world anvils. it looks like an Austrian with the exception of a pritchel hole. i bought it and never used it. since it has been a stump weight for 5 years, i decided to get back into knife making. actually i wanted to buy a browning crowell/barker...

Well sort of. About 5 years ago I filed my first knife. Then I made several by stock removal. Then I bought a forge and forged a very ugly camp knife. I haven't made a knife since.This really isn't neo tribal because I used my knife grinder because I like a convex edge. I used a anvil devil to...