Karl, Thanks for the info. That is my intuition too--temperature is temperature, and time in the salts would be the same (at temp) as time in an ...

Does anyone have a suggestion for a good, reasonably priced, trusted source for hardwoods or burls? Either online or lumberyard? I understand th...

Most of the wood I use (currently) I acquired in a lumbar yard in Ecuador when we were living there. I was able to buy a 1/2 plank of Ipe (the variety...

Thanks for the feedback, Wes. It sounds like you go to 280 before going into hardening HT, in part because you hot stamp your mark. Knowi...

Thank you, Kevin, for the info on grinding. So your sequence is: 36, 80 (a bit, sometimes), 220, 400, 600, then hand polishing. I can see that ...

[quote name='Kevin R. Cashen' date='18 July 2016 - 11:25 PM' timestamp='1468902359' post='17703'] There are two aspects to the original question- wh...

Thank you Ed, Matthew, and Kevin, I appreciate your responses and advice. I think it's pretty amazing that on this forum one can get such quick a...

That is a beautiful knife and sheath. Nice work. Steve

Great info on san mai. Where does one purchase .125-.1875 inch thick 416 stainless? I see Aldo has .250 and thicker. Thank you! ...

Great! Glad to be of help to someone on this forum--I have certainly received tons of good advice here. Steve

Thank you, everyone. I appreciate the contacts. Steve

Yesteryear Forge Another option--He has two models. I purchased the G2 (along with the versa jig) and have been quite happy with it--cheap shipp...