Kevin R. Cashen
Kevin R. Cashen
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Fit And Finish - October 2011

It can take a thick skin to hand a knife to mastersmith and ask him to tear you up, but I have found it takes more courage than most men have to hand ...

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5160 - Doing Things Backwards?

Lowell, it is quite common for folks such as myself to give advice without first asking for the appropriate details of the process being used, such se...

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Alloy Banding

[quote name='Jeremy Lindley' date='13 September 2011 - 01:08 PM' timestamp='1315937283' post='2374'] I saw this term in another thread and have seen...

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Richland Creek Hunter

[quote name='Chad Harding' date='11 September 2011 - 01:13 PM' timestamp='1315764823' post='2356'] On banding are you talking about the soft upper h...

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Richland Creek Hunter

Chad, I like the knife as well with appropriate nods to the comments already offered on the handle. I would agree with Lin that the banding issue at ...

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Thermal Cycles After Rough Grinding

[quote name='Danny Ray' date='28 August 2011 - 08:25 PM' timestamp='1314581159' post='2289'] I've noticed that most guys thermal cycle after they fo...

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Heat Treating Process For 5160

I have to assume that I am all right to provide the input you requested, so please know that I trying to do that and not pick or preach, I hope I can ...

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Glossary For Bladesmiths

[quote name='Michael Davis' date='07 July 2011 - 09:41 AM' timestamp='1310049681' post='1982'] Wow, Thanks! Might make it easier to understand K...

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Normalizing And Forging Temperatures

[quote name='Michael Davis' date='04 July 2011 - 10:04 PM' timestamp='1309835051' post='1955'] Wow....I will have to read this thread a few times to...

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Why Harden A Blade

Thank you Ed for posting the definitions, it can’t be done enough since the English language has totally botched up the difference between hardening...

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5160 Triple Quench Question

[quote name='scott allman' date='28 June 2011 - 09:08 PM' timestamp='1309313335' post='1883'] ... My question and quest to learn more has me asking:...

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5160 Triple Quench Question

[quote name='Ed Caffrey' date='28 June 2011 - 10:10 PM' timestamp='1309317043' post='1886'] Guys like Kevin are at the cutting edge of the technica...

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Lime

At around .8% you will get complete pearlite formation throughout the steel with no left over phases to deal with. When there is more than .8% there...

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5160 Triple Quench Question

Whew!, Lowell I saw your thread and thought "here we go again", since there is a whole lot of misunderstanding about that method and it often gets...

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Lime

I give my vote for the vermiculite as well, but if one wants to try one of the more powdery insulators and has a woods stove available, wood ashes mak...

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