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Hi Again! I recently made a trip to the nearby metal scrapyard to just buy a forklift tine, some structural steel, and bought some plate while I was at it. But I noticed that one of the big plates I bought is significantly harder to grind. And I absolutely can not drill through it. I know...

Hi again! I'm looking to fancy up my work. I've done 2 cu-mai (one failed, one stuck), but I was looking for something a little more food friendly. Hopefully for kitchen knives. Nickel sheets are expensive, but I came across Cupronickel. Mostly copper, but some nickel, shows up shiny and...

Hi again! I've got a project coming up where I'll be heat treating thin (~1/16") AEBL. But I'll be doing it in a propane forge. Now, I don't need ultra-hard heat treatment, or cryogenic treatment. In fact, I'll be tempering pretty soft and springy. But heat treating it rather straight is a...

Hi again! I usually use Danish Oil on all of my wooden handles. Sometimes if I don't want them to darken too much I'll use tung oil, like on blackwoods or other very dark stuff. But I've got a commission from a chef for 2 knives, and he specifically requested a seal coat on the handle. I...

Hi again! Thanks for the help on the last problem. It seems that thinking annealing the knife was a better substitute for normalizing did cause the cracking problems. This next problem I have had for a while. (Sorry if this is the wrong section.) I electro etch my knife using a home made...

Hi there! I'm new to this forum, but I've been forging knives for about 2 years, and blacksmithing about 6 months longer than that. I've been selling my knives for just over a year. But recently I've been having a lot of problems with my knives cracking. Not all of them, but enough that...