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That’s pretty much the reason I don’t use AEBL. After the quench, there would be so much RA that the steel could still be bent like mild steel. After cryo it was stiff. It’s kinda weird to work with. Definitely needs a cryo.

Sounds like you have quite a collection! Welcome Gus

Just so you know, I’m going to be retiring in about 5 years or so……..:) That’s looking good!

You’re getting there! Are they staying flat?

This was DET annealed, 1465 for 7 minutes, into P50, then 350 2x2 hours. I think it was supposed to be 62 if I remember right. I don’t have a Rockwell tester so I couldn’t verify for sure. I think it performs great though.

After my last one turned out to be junk, I decided to purposely break this one. It took three bends to 90 to break the tip inch off, then I figured I would see if it could go more. I’ve got a Crescent wrench on the tang. Still hasn’t cracked lol. W2. I had a hamon on this one that I didn’t...

I got this far with this blade. I rusted this like crazy to get a gnarly looking texture on it, then the bevel was going to be polished. Cleaned all the rust off, and now it has a hole. I ground a wide fuller into this, the web of which was .010 thick. Guess that was too thin. It was forged from...

My first thought was Camillus

I work in construction and two years ago I was working on a lab remodel. Countertops were all old rag Micarta. I tried to convince them they needed new countertops (unsuccessfully)…….I was drooling lol. It was probably 100k worth of handle materials. The knife gods have smiled on you my friend!

You should buy a cheap tile saw for cutting them up. My dad was a flooring installer, I always used his old tile saw for cutting up agates. I think you can get a water cooled one from Home Cheapo for like a couple hundred bucks.

It looks like some really old brown paper maybe. I cut everything into blocks. I can always make blocks into scales, but not scales into blocks. Looks like an awesome haul! Use to be able to find old Micarta everywhere. I bought mountains of it in 2’ square blocks 2” thick about 30 years ago...

I had one of the “Canadian belt knives” similar to that one, and they are really nice users

That hamon has got a lot going on! Very nice

Talc is a good thing! You CAN purge your whole HT kiln if you want to go that route. I had one on mine that I just made from pipe fittings and drilled a hole into the top of my HT oven. I guess it’s hard on the elements. I don’t do lots of stainless so I took it off and just use pouches again...

I have seen a YouTube video of Bob Dozier doing exactly that! It didn’t look like he was really “adding length” so much as “adding a threaded portion”. I don’t see why it shouldn’t work.

Wait…… you mean you can Graduate?! Lol

Those roller mills he makes are pretty sweet too. I seen them in action!

That’s where I got mine! Free too

Even a single blade is tough enough, I’m sure.

Gettin fancy! Next up, I suppose a four blade Congress, in feather Damascus?