Matthew Parkinson
Matthew Parkinson
Journeyman Bladesmith (5yr)
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Joined: Feb 15, 2021
Last seen: Nov 8, 2024
Topics: 47 / Replies: 502
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Is The Forged Blade A Superior Blade?

[quote name='Joshua States' date='26 January 2020 - 08:39 PM' timestamp='1580096392' post='25978'] For those of you who are interested in a little h...

5 years ago
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Tips For 'jelly Rolling' Steel By Hand Hammer?

a simple V block is enough, I made one for the anvil out of heavy wall angle iron welded to a shank reinforced with more angle iron.

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Tips For 'jelly Rolling' Steel By Hand Hammer?

normally jelly roll is an end grain pattern. the few times I have made it (not a favorite of mine) I have rolled it as tight as possible and welded in...

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Has Forged In Fire Had An Inmpact On The A.b.s.?

That is a very very good idea! Does not even need to be pre-printed a PDF file would be just as good and save the cost of shipping and printing...

5 years ago
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The Ongoing Mission Of The Abs

[quote name='Kevin R. Cashen' date='15 January 2020 - 03:48 PM' timestamp='1579128518' post='25919'] Thank you for these points Matt. These realiti...

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The Ongoing Mission Of The Abs

As I said before I am more than happy to host meeting here at my shop , I am also more than willing to act as coordinator for a CT or even north east ...

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The Ongoing Mission Of The Abs

Re-instagram this is a fairly silly argument, there are enough award knife photos, passing JS and MS set knife photos around, not to mention yearly d...

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Annealing

It is a way to break up carbides that may have formed even up structures and get a material that is soft and workable with out need to control cooling...

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The Ongoing Mission Of The Abs

I am very disheartened to hear we have such a high turnover in AP smiths. I wonder why that is, I am sure some join in whirl wind of falling in love o...

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Round End Mills For Making Finger Guards And Putting Patterns In Damascus Billets

It has been a LONG time since I was in school for machining, but somethings that have stuck with me as use full.1) coolant, cutting fluid and oil are ...

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Forging 52100

I would never forge that high a carbon steel that cool. I always start my forging at as high a temp as the steel will support and decend my temps as I...

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Round End Mills For Making Finger Guards And Putting Patterns In Damascus Billets

For brass bronze or copper I mostly use 2 flute end mills.

5 years ago
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Best Of 2019

[quote name='Gilbert McCann' date='01 January 2020 - 09:33 AM' timestamp='1577896398' post='25788'] Matt that Wootz is awesome and the knife is beau...

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History Of The Oil Quench

By experience with bloom has been it has about half the depth of hardening of 1095 or even less in some cases. I seem to remember a reference to some ...

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History Of The Oil Quench

I may have been thinking of De la pirotechnia been a LONG time since I read either.

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