[quote name='Don Hanson' date='30 June 2010 - 05:13 PM' timestamp='1277939588' post='443'] Yeap, Mike. Cans are filled with solids and powder, dry a...

A person can spheroidize with multiple short heats to temps near, but below austenitizing temps (AC1). It works really well if the blade has been quen...

[quote name='Josh Dabney' date='29 June 2010 - 11:08 AM' timestamp='1277831323' post='424'] Hello all. As with most I expect, the more I learn ...

[quote name='Don Hanson' date='28 June 2010 - 05:47 PM' timestamp='1277768873' post='420']Mike, no black lines with a can billet, all welds up good. A...

[quote name='Don Hanson' date='26 June 2010 - 07:05 AM' timestamp='1277557534' post='399'] Like Mike W. found, the very edges of the billet didn't w...

Every time I see a big blade with a top line like that I think of William Scagel. That blade has a grace to it, Mariano. And I like to watch you forge...

So, is the Casenite thing Ric Furrer did a welding flux or an anti-decarb-layer process or both? Mike Krall

Don, black lines that were "not welded" metal or ? Mike

[quote name='Mike Williams' date='24 June 2010 - 12:04 PM' timestamp='1277402655' post='378'] Actually mine is an old medicine bottle with a 30-06 h...

[quote name='Mike Williams' date='24 June 2010 - 09:47 AM' timestamp='1277394451' post='372'] Robert; A pickel jar with a hole in the lid, a wick...

This is the old Brazilian Bladesmith's integral tutorial... Mike

So what's the point of adding a high carbon layer... with or with out use of a can because Casenite will do it either way... instead of or before flux...

[quote name='Kevin R. Cashen' date='17 June 2010 - 07:45 AM' timestamp='1276782351' post='338']I personally think there could be something to the idea...

Thanks, Stephan... Mike

[quote name='Stephan Fowler' date='16 June 2010 - 01:01 PM' timestamp='1276714894' post='331'] I watched Ric Furrer doing a shear steel demo a few y...