I like your thinking Jack!!! I personally would pay twice as much if it was MADE IN THE USA. Mike

The usual culprit is too much slack in the belt. I use a rotating platen to do it; much more control in the 'vexing. Or; put a standoff in the sl...

Larry; If any of us was born to be on the tv; it is you. Keep us posted my old friend. Mike

[quote name='Tony Hughes' date='09 July 2012 - 08:59 AM' timestamp='1341849589' post='4818'] Hey Mike, what do you use if not 0000 steel wool? I hav...

I have three belt grinders at present. My twenty year old Bader I; a KMG; and a modified Baldor that runs with water coolant. All on variable speed. ...

i think that many of the problems that we as knifemakers face; is our detirmination to continually reinvent the wheel. It is in our phyche that only I...

In the long past I used steel wool also. Steel wool comes in the pack oiled to prevent it from rusting. That oil can be a real problem if little tiny ...

I have been mulling this thread around a lot. I have started three responses and have deleted them before I was through. I am not sure that I can p...

Gary; Lots of variables to be considered. When?; in the etch cycle that the problem starts is a big question. A thought: The next blade that do...

How long do you etch each time? How many times in the etch? When in the process do the "pits" appear? Immediately,second, fourth cycle? What is ...

Knife makers taking engraving classses will be the downfall of civilization!!!!

Dan; Thanks for the schedule. I get to sleep in! The Piney Woods Hammer-In is this weekend. Bout the time we think we have plenty of time ...

Mace; Sounds like you guys are going to have a great time. Wish I was going to be there. I am on the schedule for the basic class in Nov.; looking...

[quote name='Steve Culver' date='14 April 2012 - 01:13 PM' timestamp='1334434383' post='4116'] We've got the Weather Channel on, watching this mess ...

I love spring time in Oklahoma. All the pretty trees with their limbs blown off. All the beautiful gardens that the hail smashed up. all the little bi...