Recent content by Drew Riley

For sure. Those apps are definitely not without their downsides. And the bots and scammers are likely only to get worse.

If your platen tilts forward, I've always had good luck just setting a forward angle relative to my work rest, and then holding my blade blank at 90 degrees to the work rest. For holding the blade I've used anything from a piece of angle iron, a 1-2-3 block, or even just a block of scrap wood...

Internet forums in general have been on the decline for a while now. People seem to have migrated more towards apps like facebook, TikTok, Instagram and the like. I wonder if converting forums to something more mobile friendly would have any sort of impact? Personally, I always preferred the...

How deep is your dewar? Would a pair of long reach pliers work? I had a similar thing happen with my dewar. There's a small raised metal bracket in the bottom of mine for holding sample tubes. I had about 4 or 5 small fixed blade clamp together and lowered in with some bailing wire, but the...

Looks like you took al little break since the last response... haha. If you want a little better understanding of steels, how they're made, modified, heat treated, etc... I'd check out the Knife Engineering book by Dr. Larrin Thomas, which was recommended in a previous response. To answer you...

There's a handful of decent videos on youtube that show some babbitt replacement. It's not rocket surgery, but you do need some tools and materials that not everyone is going to have in their average home shop. Here's a really good one that will give you an idea of the average process involved...

Nice piece, and really nice pictures. Well done!

"That can't be real... I've never seen it before" LMAO. What a dope...

I just bought a 35L Taylor-Wharton (model 35HC) Dewar off of eBay for right at $350 shipped to my door. It came with 10 sample holders that are perfect for holding the average sized blank (or multiple blanks for that matter) that I make, and has a neck opening of almost 5 inches. It also came...

What kind of steel are you looking to heat treat?

I'm surprised that Beaumont would respond with "I don't know" instead of simply telling you that the motor needs to be reversed. Then again, I suspect that they'd rather you not reverse the belt rotation, because the original KMG doesn't always track very well in the reverse direction. That...

I picked up a very mildly used 220V Chicago Electric DC Mig Welder a few years back for about $90 or so. Brand new they're only $200 from Harbor Freight. Really not a bad welder if you run some good wire through it. I only use flux core, but it can also take gas.

Politics and world economics aside, I'd be sure to read the fine print on any shipping contract. A lot of the larger freight items may still include import duties/taxes and you may end up owing additional fees in the hundreds or even thousands of dollars range. Then there's the matter of...

You have to use a narrow belt, and/or favor just the corner of your platen with the belt tracked over. Just be careful not to slice your belt. If you can reverse the belt, all the better.

I bought the P700 with the stencil tape a couple years or so ago. I played around with it a bit, but never used it to mark any knives. The labels are definitely a "one and done" sort of thing. My biggest issue, as loffman points out above, is that it does have a low DPI, so that small font...