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300-400° during what? Austenize? Tempering? Did you normalize it before heat treat? It’s really hard to say without more information.

Hello from Minnesota! Glad you found this craft, it’s pretty fun.

For the people that make titanium laminates, I have a question. Can you laminate pure nickel in with titanium/zirconium mixes? I’m considering trying to make some in the future, and thought it would look cool if I had bright silver lines in an anodized pattern.

Do you have any pictures of it? I don’t have any ideas, but a picture might help. Between wood and Micarta, I can see the wood moving and causing this, if it looks like what I think it does. Between resin/micarta, maybe temperature differences could cause movement.

none here in Fargo, sorry. I tried

I’ll check the one in town (Fargo ND) tomorrow and see if they got any.

What carbon steel was it? I’ve done that with air hardening carbon steels

That’s a sweet ride! Is that a pair of carbs peeking out from under the hood?

I have an old Arisaka type 30 Japanese bayonet that is missing the handle. It isn’t worth much, and I thought it would be a fun project to kinda fix it up. What kind of wood was used on these handles? I’d like to use the same stuff they originally did if I could. I believe it is early 1942 model.

I’ve used AU….don’t get it TOO hot while forging. It kinda falls apart.

I been using TUS Tech too. I like them.

I’d like to learn that, I will have to see if they still sell that book.

I have a Bader B3. I like it, but I don’t kinda. It has a 1 1/4” tool arm, and the aftermarket tool arms I’ve found are 1 1/2” which kinda limits your options. Something to consider when you are searching. Those Brodbecks are pretty cool

I’m gonna keep eating meat, drinking coffee, etc, and not really worry about any of that stuff. I’ve already died a few times, I ain’t scared.

USA Knifemaker just listed their new no weld grinders. They look pretty nice. I would buy one if I didn’t already have a grinder

Welcome!

That MagnaCut is my favorite stainless steel by far. Spendy, but I do like it.

Just a lil tip…before I had my HT oven, I would do it in my forge. I would put the knife edge down in a metal tray with dry sand in it. The spine half of the blade would be exposed. I would allow the spine to get hot, then lift it up out of the sand, and the edge will heat up to temp very...

I have a pottery kiln thermocouple in my forge. I think it was a couple hundred dollars. I’d get one of those. I like 4140 for hammers. I use 5160 for most other tools.

Yeah this is kinda a new thing for me too. I’ll have pictures when it’s done