It is worth noting, as per the title of the thread, that only one of the courses mentioned is an ABS course. I only mention this because there is a lo...

Tim Zowada had been doing take-downs forever and he put the fire under me to do one back around 1996. I have done them occasionally ever since but ne...

I think this would depend on your customer's experience and maintenance habits. Some outdoor guys can keep a carbon steel hunter blade in pretty good...

[quote name='Ty Adams' date='17 April 2020 - 07:32 AM' timestamp='1587126751' post='26444'] The knife is heavily based off of John's style. I starte...

This just in- New Dates For 2020 BLADE Show: August 7-9, 2020 The BLADE Show team is pleased to announce that new options for the 2020 BL...

Cabin fever can indeed do strange things to your mind.

My taekwondo institute all got set up with Zoom video conferencing, so we are still doing classes in front of a tablet or laptop. I just submitted my ...

Those of us on the board do whatever we can to keep Cindy happy, because we know who keeps the ABS running and makes us look like we know what we are ...

Bead blasting, with 80X media, to clean up parts, descale, for a matte finish or to prep for other finishes. Cleaning and dusting of the overall sho...

Yes that is very possible. Finer grain = faster quench requirements in simple steels.

We have heard nothing yet from Blade, it is quite a way's out yet and could be on the other side of the worst of it when we get there, if it is not, l...

Without first hand experience with the blade, all I can say is that decarb and mixed pearlite structures are the most common causes of cloud like effe...