I have done extensive testing in many areas of all of Aldo's basic forging steels, and by far his 1075 is the most responsive to hamons of any steel I...

10F would be nice, that is where it normally would be here at this time of year, but this morning as I type this it has warmed up a bit to -10F. Yest...

Now that I have ground all of the blades from the O-1/L6/O-2 that I dry welded and did the metallography on, I thought I would report back. Everythin...

[quote name='Mike Williams' date='13 December 2013 - 11:33 AM' timestamp='1386952395' post='9264'] Kevin; quote" Merry Christmas..." I thought he ...

Merry Christmas Gentleman, consider the work in the link below an early present from me. Forgive the link to a separate page for this, but ...

[quote name='Jay_Cryer' date='09 November 2013 - 10:41 AM' timestamp='1384011683' post='8950'] Any ideas on hand stamping my blade, silver soldering...

Hey Mark! Good to see you here. 1. Stones glossary is the standard text that everybody probably has, the information is general as its scope ...

For what it is worth, I have been told some of the same regarding metal particles, I had friends tell me my eyes would be shredded in an MRI, however,...

I know it doesn't help answer the initial question, but I tired with buying wire brushes some time ago and got one of those masonry brushes that have ...

[quote name='jared_foster' date='23 September 2013 - 08:34 PM' timestamp='1379986463' post='8511'] Thanks for the replies. Josh it's 5160 from admir...

[quote name='Steve Culver' date='18 September 2013 - 06:43 PM' timestamp='1379547785' post='8470'] Joseph, I agree with Keith, 5160 could caus...

Joseph, canola has the faster cooling curve and thus it would be better for the 10XX than peanut oil which sill work better with something like 5160, ...

[quote name='Cheyenne Walker' date='08 September 2013 - 10:09 PM' timestamp='1378696156' post='8327'] That depends on the dojo and standards. ...

[quote name='Steve Watkins' date='06 September 2013 - 05:37 PM' timestamp='1378507023' post='8303'] Ok, had time to run a little test. Not sure my...

One page at a time- now your other questions Yes the blade is that soft to just move with gloved hands, I have left my finger impressions in ...