I sometimes see those marks with my SG attachment (Wuertz machine works) and I have found that moving fast makes them appear, while moving slowly elim...

And using it to hold the blade in a vice mounted to the side of the bench for hand sanding. Micarta-Block-3.jpg

Using it at the disc grinder  Micarta-Block-2.jpg

Knife making hacks that work!

I have never been very good at spotting recalescence. Here is a much better way to get the right temp for hardeneing if you don't have a controlled...

You are watching for Decalescence/Recalescence?

Ron Kinyon (and his hammers) are something of a local legend and hero around my neck of the woods. Ron is still an active member of the Arizona Artist...

When you say "hardened by eye" what exactly does that mean?

This is after HT and hand sanding to 220. This will be a little Ulu. I may just keep this as an herb chopper or maybe even a head knife for my leather...

Now I started to spread the lobes out with a cross peen and extending the bevels out.  8-Spread.jpg

Once I got a decent sized drift into it, I started to neck down the sides around the drift.  7-Neck-down.jpg

Then I added a slot off center and started to open it up until I could start putting some hawk/axe drifts into it.  5-Open-slot.jpg