[quote name='Travis Briles' date='14 April 2020 - 12:52 PM' timestamp='1586886761' post='26422'] Thanks for all the advice guys. I hadn't thought a...

PS: forgot to ask this as I originally meant to ask if I can very, very, carefully use muriatic acid to strip the black oxide treatment from metal. I ...

[quote name='Ed Caffrey' date='11 April 2020 - 07:49 AM' timestamp='1586609388' post='26405'] Well, 1/4"=.250..... however, and corby bolt that is ....

Thanks, I got some ideas i will try out from the advice given.

[quote name='Joshua States' date='26 March 2020 - 09:22 AM' timestamp='1585232521' post='26358'] I do not see any reason why you cannot answer quest...

[quote name='Joshua States' date='26 March 2020 - 09:26 AM' timestamp='1585232786' post='26359'] Deb and Kevin Stinson, Kevin Cashen started a topi...

thank you.

[quote name='Ed Caffrey' date='25 March 2020 - 07:40 AM' timestamp='1585140059' post='26346'] Anything other than "bare steel" MIGHT cause problem i...

alerts got buried in my mailbox however i have learned more about Hamons since then. you can get use clay to get a hamon in deep hardening steel, howe...

well personally my feeling is mills are not needed for a bladesmith, they were invented for cold work in the machining trade, and frankly, the new way...

[quote name='Matt Albitz' date='11 March 2020 - 11:48 AM' timestamp='1583945289' post='26260'] Hi Kevin, Maybe you should look for museum ca...

[quote name='Kevin R. Cashen' date='12 February 2020 - 10:08 AM' timestamp='1581520106' post='26109'] Never used these larger diamond tools, but I h...