Thanks for starting this topic, Steve. I hope those who share their methods will also list and/or show tooling and how their tooling is used. So, ...

There are so many zeroes in that it's hard for me to figure out!! That is just a really cool milestone. Thanks, Dan.

Brian Thie is a good source on that, Gary.

Dan, I did a real-time pin locating and drilling demo in Ohio last year. And I showed how it could be done by hand in the handle material. I wonder ...

[quote name='Jordan LaMothe' date='16 June 2015 - 02:42 PM' timestamp='1434487369' post='13778'] Wow, this is all great advice. Thank you all s...

Here is another variation of pin hole alignment. I'm sure, at this time, I have made well over 350 take-downs from hunters to fighters, to multi-par...

Jordan, always try to do the best you can with the fit of your hardware. Do not depend too much on the pins to take up slop, but rather to add precisi...

Dan - thanks for that reply.

We have far more opportunities to ruin a perfectly good piece of steel by forging it than you do to 'improve' it. To be simplistic - "Forge definiti...

You would have been right across the row from me.

I swear i think I would attend a class at some hammer-in if there was one available.

This is some alloy banding in 5160 I got in about 2005 or 2006 when I was austenizing 5160 with a torch for edge hardening:

At the risk of making an assumption, you say you are using roller bearings, so this may very well be 52100. What you see is a common result of forgi...

I have used the temper straightening process since I learned it more than a dozen years ago. At the time, I knew few folks who used it. For the mo...