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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

[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...

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 ...

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

whale oil was pretty commonly used as quench oil as late as the 40s-50s. Pretty sure it is mentioned in Practical blacksmithing (orginlaly written 189...

At a guess I would say it started to be come common with the advent of the industrial revolution, with the switch over to first crucible steels then B...

[quote name='Ken Hall' date='24 December 2019 - 07:49 PM' timestamp='1577242164' post='25755'] Matthew, thanks for the feedback. In addition to the...