For me it was and is what the judges will see that I miss. I am sure is is a little bit of imposter syndrome. With my JS set there were things I saw t...

As far as if you are ready .. Make a test knife and see if you can pass the performance test. Ask your self , do you understand how to pass? what yo...

Nice looking set! congrats! MP

along with what Kevin said, I have had good experience with bumping the initial temp, up to 1650 the 1075/1080 can over refine in forging resulting i...

A grinder running modern ceramic belts requires pressure to cut, this is regardless of the quality or ability of the machine. If the machine can not t...

I see this all the time in my students work. you are re-setting the bevel to a different angle each pass. To keep the faceting from happening keep ...

I wrote about this in my Knife Magazine column last June. I don't really have any answer then or now. Is it a forged blade .. probably. is it a we...

That is correct, however back when i was in machine shop school the slang/jargon was 0.003 was three thou and 0.030 would be thirty thou. Oddly ...

in this phot the fit looks good, I do see some of the same courser marks on the side (less that in the top view) looks like they may have been buffe...

In this photo I see several issues the first to jump out at me is the but of the handle is not square to the blade. The second this when I opened the...

The photos of the crack show me a few things of interest , first the blue color indicates the crack happened after the quench before the temper or it ...

well I am going to have to disagree with Ed on this, thickness should be fine and that soak time in a oven at that temp should work fine, not what I w...