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Thanks everyone!!! The blade is out in the oven tempering right now, hoping to have an update tonight, I've got the handle rough fit, we'll see how the rest of the day goes. It's looking like it's going to have a nice pattern.

Today I tried out my new little press to see if I could make damascus. I've used a hammer before to do it, but never a press. We're a Stihl chainsaw dealer where I work so, I've got chains up the kazoo. All in all I'm pretty happy, still lots of practicing to do, but here's a short video I took...

Forgot to add, that when the ram is at the top, the distance between the "dies" is 5"

Well, I forged up some chainsaw chain damascus with it today! No problems what so ever. I took a short vid of it demonstrating it squishing an axe head that I'm gonna forge out the head on, just to play around. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JNwUV_l4SM&feature=youtu.be I've never used a...

VaughnT, Estimating it at about a 3.5 bore in the cylinder and guessing at 1500 psi, it's around 7 ton. I'll measure the throw and speed maybe today when I get out in the garage. I'll look around on it and see if I can find a make and model, check shops that make hydraulic hoses, they have...

Thanks guys, I'm always tinkering with something and I love being able to share it with folks who enjoy the same stuff I do.

Thanks guys, I'm gonna replace the hoses as they're probably older than I am :) gonna relocate the valve too, some heat shielding for the lines would probably be a good investment too, thanks for the tip

From one begining knifemaker to another, welcome! I've only got a 1x30 belt grinder and for begining I think it works great, it isn't powerfull enough to remove lots of metal, and it's slow, which I think is a great thing to learn on. One thing I did was to make a grinding jig to get the bevels...

In real life I'm an auto mechanic, I know lots of folks who are collectors of "stuff" It may just be part of the mechanic's life to collect stuff that most folks would throw away. In my travels today I was at the shop across the street, which is an ag equipment dealer. I sometimes spend some of...

It's all gonna depend on the pressure you run your burner at too, I also run mine on 20 pounders and when running wide open at 20 psi in the summer it's about an hour, but most of my forging I run at about 5 psi and I can get quite some time out of a cylinder. A 20 pound cylinder IIRC is only...

That's pretty cool! Are you using petrobond sand for the casting? Zeb

It's been a while since I've melted metal, so tonight I decided to melt up some for a bolster on a knife I'm working on. I had been reading on shibuichi, which is an alloy of copper and silver, and I wanted to give it a try. I've got some silver and copper squirreled away for the real stuff, but...

Thanks for the insight everyone. I'm not really afraid of working with titanium, I'm just kinda afraid of buying it :) Frank, thanks for the heads up on on AKS, lots of great stuff there, I'll be giving them a call for a small piece and probably a few other bits as well. Thanks Zeb

Thanks guys! I appreaciate all the help Zeb

I'm wondering what kind of steel to use for the liner in a liner lock? Should I pony up and buy the titanium, or will plain old carbon steel work? I assume that it should have a spring temper? Thanks Zeb

Thanks for all the encouragement everyone, I've got a nasty habbit of starting alot of things and finishing very few :) and I'm hoping not to disappoint on this one. If I can make this look half as good as the stuff around here I'll be happy :) Today I worked a bit more on the blade, I traced...

Awesome! Thanks so much for this, I was just going to get out the calculator tonight to do this, now it's on my phone, freaking sweet. Thanks again Zeb

Not that I don't have alot of other irons in the fire, but I've been wanting to make a liner lock folder. The wife's been gone for the past couple days and the kids have been with me, so no garage time, but lots of craft time :) while the girls cut up straws and paper to glue together I decided...

Cool, lots of folks from Michigan! I'd be up for some coffee sometime, I'd love to meet up with other knifemakers

Thanks for the welcome fella's. I'm about a half hour's drive north of you Randy. Here's a pic of my first knife, it's a cable damascus friction folder Here's another that's just rough, but made for just everyday use, it don't matter if it get's beat up, it's forged from a car coil...