The shape, size and configuration of the quillons is determined by the fighting style they were developed for. In earlier periods there often was no...

This has been a great area of concern to me for some time. When I see a test knife do most of the bending at the ricasso area or on the tang during t...

Well if it is true normalizing, which is well in excess of the recrystallization temperature (or even Ac3 or Accm) it may even be detrimental before t...

Sorry Zack, close but not quite. You have the shapes and numbers correct but the elements wrong. All of the atoms in the unit cell will be iron; the...

[quote name='Jeremy Lindley' date='25 May 2013 - 02:46 PM' timestamp='1369511212' post='7458'] Great question and thanks for the information. Could ...

Good answer Gary! I always like to see as many folks that can jump into these conversations even when I am paged, life is so boring if I do all t...

Tom, I believe it is my job as a board member to hear your concerns and thoughts on topics such as this, so my post is to address that rather than giv...

I find myself often making close observations about the bend when I see performance tests these days; how it bends, where it bends, and how much does ...

To me the two most important things to know about hamons are: 1. It is pronounced "Ha-moan", not hammin, or hammun, that is the most common misun...

There are three types of steel hardenability that we often encounter- water hardening, oil hardening and air hardening. Adding more of certain alloyi...

[quote name='Michael_Presnell' date='11 April 2013 - 08:00 PM' timestamp='1365728434' post='7025'] Brian I let it air cool in between thermal cycles...

Sorry for my delay in particpating in the discussion but the Badger Knife Club show is next week, and well.... You know. In a way Newton’s ...

[quote name='Justin_Bowman' date='22 February 2013 - 05:04 PM' timestamp='1361570673' post='6649'] I was just wondering what oils every one uses to ...

And excellent and informative post Dan. Back in 2005 I was involved in a pretty in-depth study of the performance and characteristics of many of ...

There are two ways to approach the ABS bend test, you can go for a very springy result that will tend to return as close to true as possible, or you c...