Recent content by antleygd

They look lots better than mine! Ykes, you guys out class me a bet too...for now...I am learning more every day. "If the forge has been lit today, all the metel is HOT!"

Square.... Has any of you had to deal with support using the Square application? No one mentioned Cube which is what my wife has but has not completed setting up. I have been looking at this option because people dont seem to carry "that kind of cash" around to shows and markets around here...

For several years now I have made knife from old HC or WHC marked railroad spikes. I have sold these knives with the understanding they make okay knives not good knives due to the lack of carbon. After purchasing a Hardness Rockwell C Tester, my story is changing. The blades are forged...

Doug Lester: The information you have posted is overwhelming to me. However this is the stuff I am looking for! Where does on start, as in book, to learn to follow and understand the charting infromation sometimes found with steel heat treating? Surely someone has a small book that will be...

I am in the process of finding a way to get blanks cut from large circle blades used in the tree trimming industry. The steel is believed to be L-6, we think. CNC Plasma cutting is difficlut. I am looking for contact info for the guy in Nacogdoches Texas who does water jet cutting. I have...

http://www.usaknifemaker.com/plans-for-the-no-weld-grinder-sander-nearly-50-pages-p-723.html Is the place to get the plans. Best $25 you will ever spend! Rolling mill plans...hum... I picked up a set off the internet for another $25. Dont remember where that was though.

Percy the mill posted by Joly is the exact mill we have in the shop. I would be intrested to see some better photos of the in feed/outfeed table on that machine. Joe and I made that nickle stuff today. Little curve to it but it turns out nice. We took it down from about 1/2 down to 3/8 inch...

People hunt me down for them. My problem is legal railroad spikes. I dont know how many spikes I have turned away because they were "picked up" off of the right of way. Every once in a while I find a contractor who has cleaned up a track rehab and I can get a bucket from them. Usually the...

Okay now.... you guys have me wanting to rev the plans and build a "LEFT HANDER'S" model now. LOL

Tracy said it first. I mean letter for letter as to what I was going to post..... Great minds think alike....LOL

Alright, here is my insaine way of making sure the pin swells..... When I put a pin in I hammer it bit. The grind away the excess because I dont have brains enough to cut them the right leinght to start with. The I rap them with a sharp center punch a time or two. The I hammer them out some...

I make my own guards using bar stock, a drill press, an end mill, and a X-Y vice. I mill out an indention on the back of the guard about 3/32 all the way around where the tang exits the back of the guard. I fill this will JB weld. I fill this with JB weld. The JB will will seep down the tang...

Awsome! It is all art.

I dont think that blade was intended to have a guard. That dip in front of the blade may be intended for the index finger to fit it. The rest of the hand would fit the handle and I bet it was intended to have a good palm swell to help keep the hand from slipping foward. With that said, I...

That aint a knife! That is art!!!