Recent content by Chris Railey

The last time I cut rough-sawn wood into scales, I cut several of the actual grubs on my bandsaw because I could not see them. After a few of them, it makes a bit of a sticky mess.

I have used black-dyed regular epoxy to fill grub holes just like those in Walnut. It worked fine for me, although I have found that some epoxies only cure to a hard rubber consistency which was really hard to shine up when doing finish work. If I were going to do some more, I would use...

Well, I can see crushed X's between the twists so you have started a new trend...

I love making Pattern Welded steel (Damascus). That is a nice pattern there...Twist?

The first 10 seconds of this video is the best explanation I have ever seen for why we move a knife blade up and down during the quench. https://fb.watch/qNFVCQG3iJ/

No worries I appreciate you bringing them up.

@Gliden07, if you find out who, please let me know. I would like to investigate that. According to their website, Tobin Machines does not sell their roller mills to the US.

I need them to make a roller mill next.

You are a machine brother...

We used to raise sheep, and I had a surplus of ram horns to use as scales, so I started to do some research on ways to flatten the material. I thought boiling was more than likely the way to go, but what I found in my research was that boiling adds too much moisture, and likely the material...

The way I look at the world is: you can do what you want in your own shop for sure. That being said, I would not treat AEB-L in this manner, especially if you sell your knives. Most SS requires a more exacting HT process with soaks at specific temps. If you were to gain control of your...

I always respected a true Scandi grind for its ease of sharpening alone.

If I posted pictures of my slip joints you would see...Lol

I have a question, and this is in no way negative, it's just something I thought about. You are obviously way ahead of me in the folder realm so I figured I would ask. Your liners are brass and your pivot pin is brass. Both have friction contact with hardened steel. Are you worried that the...

It will not be long now, and you will be rocking on those things. Awesome. If you have not done so, you may want to make some tapered temporary pins with nice handles on them for the 1,000 times you have to assemble and disassemble every folder. Someone here gave me that advice when I was...