You are doing some really nice work Stuart. Excellent rendition of a classic. Brion

Stuart, you nailed those! Excellent work! I really like the first one, heck I like them all. Brion

Very nice touch on a classic Lin. I had one very similar a friend of my great uncle's made way back when. Like Anthony said, it was not damascus thoug...

Thank you Kevin. I noticed a number of people having these issues with an older batch of W2, from about three years ago. Brion

Guillermo, that is very nice! Great work on the dovetailed bolsters and engraving. Excellent! Brion

Noel the air cool should be fine. The parks is good. I would shoot for 1475 and you need a soak time with W2 of 5-10 minutes with it. If you are using...

Noel, have you given it a clean up grinding? It is possible that you have some decarburization. So try a clean up grind and do the hardness test with ...

Joey I appaud you trying the torch method. If you will do a search here on the forum for hamon you will pull up a lot of information. One thread espec...

Nice work there Craig! Very clean! Good work. Brion

Hmmm Mike, am I a miscreant, vagrant, or undesireable? Lol! Seriously Mike speaks the truth. There is nothing like face to face demos and instruct...

I am looking forward to it. A great lineup! Thank you for posting Deb. Brion

Welcome to the ABS and the forum Mikael. Post any questions you have and we will try our best to answer. Brion

Jo, as far as the set. The two hidden tangs and frame handles are fine. If you are real comfortable doing frames, go for it. One full tang is fine, as...