Just remember what you did to get this done and adjust accordingly to dial it in. It is very challenging to get your components sized and forged and...

First I'm going to ask that you re-size that large photo. There is a forum photo size of 1000 x 1000 pxl. I'll give you until tomorrow to re-size th...

All I can say is that they must have considered his tooling to have created a "bolster" in the blade in front of the handle. If that's NOT an individu...

I am at a loss why I can not copy and paste that right now, but, since 2012, "..........all of the knives submitted must have guards/bolsters." G...

PM sent re: photo size.

I do have to admit, that with all the varying viewpoints on Forged in Fire, it was nice last night to see a Master Smith, a Journeyman Smith and a mem...

If things were a little different that thing would be mine.

I do believe I have high res photos of every knife I've made for at least the last 15 years. And I've tried to edit the best photos I can to the degre...

[quote name='Kevin R. Cashen' date='13 January 2020 - 01:11 PM' timestamp='1578942693' post='25884'] First- it isn't pearlite, second- it isn't mar...

Welcome aboard!!

Kevin, since everything I know of must be in some sort of "condition", if you have avoided both pearlite and martensite in this process, what conditio...

The two words I see tossed around the most and either misunderstood or misused are anneal and normalize. I haven't done an "annealing cycle" on a fo...

[quote name='Kevin R. Cashen' date='09 January 2020 - 12:52 PM' timestamp='1578595929' post='25843'] Ahh, the curse of ironwood block users. At �...

It's a bummer when that happens. Even worse when it's large. I just don't use it. Get another one.

That is a very cool combination of materials. That knife is a home run.