Recent content by opaul

Just picked up this 39A golden Mountie. Haven had a chance to shoot it yet.

Always a good day when all the decisions have posit consequences.

From Alpha Knife Supply This steel is used extensively in the lumber industry for making large circular saw blades. The nickel add toughness and there is enough carbon for good edge holding. There is not enough nickel to make a good shiny layer in damascus. Think of 8670 as an improved version...

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Explain this one to me.

Well the good news is they probably don’t make thongs in that size!! ;)

Mark Barone is a fine fellow and gentleman knife maker. Thanks for all you do to help keep this great forum interesting.

Ok, so NORMALLY I wait until all the fit and finish is done before I sharpen a knife. Yesterday, for some reason, I decided to sharpen that Bowie I'm building with still more work to do around the guard/handle. I probably do as a lot of you guys do - put a light coat of oil on the blade, wrap...

I don't know what white paper steel is.

I wonder what he is going to ask Santa for this coming Christmas !! Bahaahaa

Can you tell us a little more about it? What steel's were used. I do a lot of grinding post heat treat and I haven't had that particular problem. The blade thickness is over 1/8" so if it was tempered at 400 degrees I wouldn't think there would be much flexibility.

This one is about 90% complete.

Nice work all around!