Thanks Karl. I think the exaggerated pattern I tried could be a big part of the problem. I’ll try a simpler one like in the video next time. Also no s...

Thanks Brion. Yes, I normalized and thermal cycled after forging. I think I will try it again but this time without a soak. As for the steel I’m not s...

Sorry I guess picture 3 file size was too big. It didn’t add much to the story anyway.

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I don’t know how helpful this will be but here are some blurry, zoomed in stills from a video I took of the quench. To me the color of the blade looks...

Hi Brion, thanks for your feedback. I’m not 100% sure my thermocouple is accurate. Unfortunately I don’t know how to test that either. Do you think...

One last note: I was very careful to not overheat the blade while grinding after ht. I grind freehand without gloves so if it was too hot I would have...

Also, as I was getting excited about how this blade was turning out and the plans I had for the handle I’m tempted to normalize and start the whole ht...

Here is the picture of the blade with the clay applied. I couldn’t figure out how to attach more than one picture in the first post  0BE3F221-3...

Thanks Zach! This is super helpful! It seems like a good design and I like the idea of having the controls integrated into the frame like you pointed ...

My current setup is a 2x42 Jet belt/disk combo. I had to make my own “flat platen” for it…..it’s almost flat haha. The seller of the black fox says...

That’s it! Thank you!