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Hey guys, Long long long time no see...but I wanna be more active again... Anyways since a buddy of mine said to me yesterday "Stop nagging ,go back to work..." I did So first of all I a little stress relief: Then I started finishing up the VULTURE: 5mm thick O1, etched OAL 16,4cm/ 6.45"...

hello, looking for used or new contact wheels. size doesn´t really matter..just make me an offer if you wanna get rid of any wheel you have thx AL Please email me: fredslan@gmail.com

Hey guys, there is a junk market coming up and I need to pimp a few knives they are lightly scratched you know from kydex sheaths, light use and so on... SO what´s the best way to get rid of the scratches without using the grinder or hand sanding??? Any abrasive wheels I could buy which...

Hi guys, I wanna make me a slack belt attachment Don´t have an inverter so my grinder / 3HP / runs on full speed I wanted to use the smallest wheels I could get... probably a 1" and a 1.5" (wanna use them for making fingergrooves as well) but that means the bearings will be pretty small too...

hey dogs made a knife scribe more or less like the one from Tracey steel bar carbide point screw crossbow arrow couple drills and a small tap Uploaded with ImageShack.us

I love grinding What I don´t like it sanding and cleaning the blades after HT With all the oil burned into the blade I get annoyed easily :unsure: I figured out that a scotchbrite pad works best to get rid of the burned in quench oil but it takes time same with sandpaper also put a...

Hey guys, Will get a bigger more powerful ( 3 hp) grinder soon :D Only problem... no variable speed So I was wondering to what grit you grind on full speed I´ll still have my smaller variable speed grinder right next to the bigger one so I´ll probably use the bigger one for profiling,rough...

Well well didn´t the ads say GunKote is durable and long lasting... Not really true Guess what I just figured out. I had this small knife I coated with GunKOte a while ago. Modified it on the weekend and to make the blade look darker I etched it Someone told me that I´d get an used look by...

Saw them on Firstborn knives yesterday and tried to find them online but no luck. :unsure: So does anyone know where I could get some. They look like this: Uploaded with ImageShack.us thx AL

Was just wondering how you guys straighten out the ricasso if it´s not perfectly straight? do you use a finer belt or do you start with a rougher one ? do you use a jig? Thx AL

hey dogs, I etch or coat most of my knives Kind of like the look of an etched or coated blade (and it helps to hide scratches :eek: ) Anyway I saw this etch the other day and was wondering how it´s done. Well I know that first of all to get the blade gray you have to etch it...

Hey guys, Looks like I have to make a new flatgrinding platten.:mad: Last time I made it out of O1 and tempered it to 60 HRC But a dude told me that it´s not necessary and that no tempering means a harder platten which will last longer What do you think? Is that true? THX AL

Finally made a sheath for him. Really dig the shape Chisel ground,pretty thin, last resort knife The steel is from one of the best german blacksmith www.schmiede-balbach.de He also makes damascus steel out of german Leopard tanks Anyway that´s the knife cool 1 AL

Didn´t have much time today.:eek: That´s why I finished the most simple knife I had around... a Shirabiki (Japanese Marking Knife ) OAL: 5.9 " O1 HRC: 59 AL

Got up at 7am and spent the whole day with grinding,sanding,heat treating,... Now I´m tired but can look back on a very productive day. Wouldn´t it be great if we could do what we love every day ?!?!?! AL

I like to etch my blades. Or let´s say whenever I´m too lazy to GunKote them I etch them... And I´m pretty lazy lately :eek: OAL: 6,7" 1/4" O1 first attempt of etching mountains :bud: Al

Well first one I have finished this year: O1 OAL 5.2" 1/4" Kiku knives like etching Silver coated screws ... love how textured scales feel in hand the Kiku knives like etch is pretty cool in my book and a little fancy **** by silver coating the screws done is an...

Well that´s a cool new forum. Haven´t heard of it before but I´ll spread the word I saw a LInk on Les Georges website and thought I´ll check it out. Pretty cool here. BTW I´m AL from Austria Hobbyknifemaker and knife nut :eek: Live in a small town not worth mentioning :D and got a Pitbull...