This may be a bit unconventional but once I have established a good visible burr I run the edge over the edge of my wooden bench. This peels the wire off then I hand strop on leather with green chrome. This leaves a "toothy" edge. If I want finer I go to leather with white compound, then .05...
The ramp is made from 2" c channel. I drilled thrust the body of the small wheel attachment and machined the hole slot longer for adjustment in the bottom of the c channel ramp.
Ill be gone all week. Will try to get pics next weekend.
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Mike
I have been thinking this through for sometime. Wanting a flat platen with changeable wheel size (radius) to grind integral type blades. Here is what I came up with. Seems to fit the bill nicely.
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Mike
Just got in some Hitachi Blue from Aldo. Just curious if anyone has heat treated this yet, and if so what were your experiences?
What quench medium did you use, and what tempering temps did you use to get what RC hardness?
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Mike
I work in the petro chem industry mainly in refineries and plants. Most locations require a badge on a lanyard to be displayed at all times. Folks hang everything off of their lanyard. I try to have at least 25 - 50 made up before a large outage. Large work force, away from home making good...
Stuart I agree completely.
I do know folks that use Parks 50 for everything and do good with it, I just cant justify the risk.
Probably why I still haven't tried an interrupted water quench on W2!
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Mike
Mainly looking for grain size. The smaller the better. These can be really helped by normalizing cycles. If I forge, I anneal my blade before I start grinding, this does 2 things, it helps relieve any stress I have put into the blade while forging, second it softens the steel to its lower RC...
Kcorn
What did the sections look like where they broke? Where they large sparkley grain, or was it a duller crushed sand kind of look, or was it slick like glass?
I ask because those questions will tell us where your steel was, in a manner of speaking.
For a heavy use knife try this:
Use 5160...
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THANK YOU!!
I have been looking for that manual for some time. Found several parts and pieces but no full manual.
Will now hopwfully start looking for a belt!
Thanks Again! God Bless
Mike