Please allow me to add, in reference to Lowell's statement, "Everything I have read prior to this on 5160 seems to indicate that the quench needs to o...

Just thought I would let everyone know that our knife brought $2,250.00 at auction. This auction has brought more than $500,000.00 for the...

[quote name='Rick Baum' date='20 May 2011 - 12:52 PM' timestamp='1305917540' post='1652'] Thanks Brion. Wasn't it Hay Hendrickson that said, in...

Whoever came up with that idea is a genius.

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Here is the text of an email from GLOC in response to my query of 5 gallons: "Hi Karl, The GLOC Quench A would ship from our Indiana blendi...

Not all that many years ago, a lot of makers used Texaco "A" as the go-to oil for the deeper hardening steels like 5160, 52100, etc. Seems as if tha...

From my own rendition of Russ' idea, only a few minutes time and less than 1/3 sheet of paper: I was holding the knife up in the ceiling light betwe...

Russ, thanks, buddy. I just made up my own rendition of the same concept. Nuthin' like another "tool" to add to the pile.

[quote name='Kevin R. Cashen' date='09 March 2011 - 07:58 AM' timestamp='1299679093' post='1324'] ......formed a natural hamon, hardening line where...

[quote name='Mike Krall' date='06 March 2011 - 09:10 PM' timestamp='1299467420' post='1301'] I normalize three times. At the high end of 1600F - 16...

Thought I might toss in a visual for some ideas you may be able to use. Pardon the disarray of the shop right here - this was a few years ago. ...

I think Ed's take on this is well-founded and should reflect any maker's decision to be known, not only now, but far into the future. Few - incredib...

Here's something I've been working on lately and that is twisting my single twist billets in the forge. This piece started as 324 layers and was for...