Thanks for starting this thread Dan. I learned so much from all of my fellow JS & MS awardee's ... There are so many bright futures in this group ... ...

Thanks for the information Seth & Steve....I've narrowed my search for an oven down to an Evenheat or a Paragon....now I just have to determine the de...

Phil, thanks for the great heat treat links, I've just bookmarked them. Kevin, as always thanks for the in-depth response. I've got about 18 feet of t...

Thanks Lin for you help, I'll be sure to follow your advice when I try new steels, I think about 50% of what I've learned has come by way of trial and...

Yes Lin....however it wasn't until after the class was over that we found out that the heat treat was wrong. I've yet to make a blade with the 1070 th...

I am learning a lot from this thread folks and hope you don't mind me interjecting with a question or two of my own Lyman? JD, when you talk about the...

Lin, I think we treated it, as if it were 1095, and thus set the tempering cycles at too high of a temperature. We normalized, three times, with ...