Common practice is Acid then coffee but there in no law that says you have to follow common practice. Try it and see what happens

Nice work Chad and thanks for posting

Chad thanks for looking. Yes I forgot about those. It's black vulcanized fiber for the liners

Lin thanks for the comment Brion Thanks. Its funny you say that about the bolsters. All I had was 1/8" nickle silver. I was scared they were goin...

Welcome to the Abs Thomas!

You either need a bigger granite slab, a big piece of glass, a big tile, or something that's big and flat. You try draw filing it but you would a big ...

Where are you located? I could try a steel yard, a local machine shop, Or the scrap yard

Thanks for link Joshua. The way I did it I used a scrap piece wood. I drilled a hole threw it and transfer the line up pin holes from the guard into t...

Thanks Andy.

Hey how did you get your mag before me I have Kevin's Video and it is good stuff. I hope he comes out with some more on some more steels.

Been Working on this Handle for awhile. Its etched wrought iron, 2 black vulcanized fiber spacers, 1 copper spacer, and Tasmanian Blackwood. This...

I hear what you are saying. I have seen some of Nick wheeler knives with clayless Hamons and they have insane activity but it might be because he also...

This is a another Harpoon clip Bowie I have been working on but this has a Hamon in W2 tool steel. It is a clayless Hamon meaning I didn't use any cla...

I don't know anything about puukko knives but they look cool to me. The second pic looks like you got some stray scratches on the blade near the edge.