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for the radius, I like to keep them so that the tang is around 75% of the width of the blade at the riccasso. and the spine side is a bit more than the blade side so that I can get the spine and the handle closer together. lately, Ive been cutting in the tang radiouses after heat treat, so that...

Yes you can use it for guards. ive done some guards in mild steel before and they came out good. Also if its the right size for handsanding.

Looks really similar to mine. Instead of the top bar like yours, i made my last one with a bar on either side of the upright with bars welded between them and the pivot bolt runs theough the center. Its alot more stable and provides better tracking. My power hammer was alot of fun to build...

Great work on the tools! Im about the same, ive built my powerhammer, 3 2x72 grinders, both forges, one anvil, and a whole buch of other stuff. While you are rebuilding the grinder with the new to you motor, swing by the salvage yard. My local salvage yard has a pile that they keep electric...

The ledge on the break is probably due to the edge of your vise jaws cutting into the side of the blade during the flex. When i do a blade break, i use either hardwood blocks between the blade and the jaws or a set of angle iron holders that i made with the corners well rounded, and use a torque...

Id add to read the scale pattern on the quenched blade, file testing for harndess, and etching in ferric after tempering to read the ht, and testing for performance against a known good blade, all things that are cheap or free

The only harndness tester i have are files, regular nicholson ones, and a 8" black diamond mill file wont cut the hardened portion of the blade, even after tempering. Yet my test knives normally flex to 70 degrees or more before the edge cracks or the blade breaks depending on the depth of the...

setting the oven by the flex test is the most accurate way Ive been able to get consitent results. the flex test doesnt change much except from summer to winter. I still would like to try one of those fancy ovens and do some comparisons between my ht, and the soak time ht's. and see if there is...

1095 is one of my favorites. one of these days Im going to get a kiln so I can try all these other recipies! right now I just have a propane forge, with no thermothingy to tell me what the temp is. but here is my ht. grind or forge then normalize twice anneal twice in preheated wood ash {i...

OAL- 9 3/4" blade- 5 1/4" long, .175" thick, 1" wide at the guard, and a long ricasso, allowing you to choke up on the blade for fine cuts steel- Aldo's Awesome High Performance 1095, Forged, with in-house differential heat treatment which includes double normalize, double anneal, double...

I have used skateboard wheels before, the ones off those big skateboards, i took one of the wheels, drilled out the center to fit on a water pump bearing from an old automotive water pump I had in my scrap pile and used that for my tracking wheel on a 2 wheel grinder I built out of scrap. I...

I used to drill the series of holes, but i never could get them all lined up in a straight line. So i started just drilling 2, at the scribe lines where the tang curves start, then scribing lines on the outside of the holes, and then using a jewlers saw to cut out the waste. Then i use 4"...

thanks for the welcome guys!!

Lerch, sounds like your blade did not reach full hardness during the quenches, or your tempering oven is WAY off if you tempered it at 350 and the edge stayed bent during your brass rod test. you said that you quenched 3 times back to back. were you doing just the one knife or several? what...

hi everyone! My name is Joe, and I am addicted to knives. Im a full time maker or more {average around 60 hours per week}. An internet friend of mine said there were some good folks here and that I aught to stop in for a visit and some good clean knifetalk. I started making knives as a kid...