Recent content by Taz575

Ok, so I am running my lasers on a desktop CNC control board. I found out my CNC S value (spindle speed) was 10,000, but my laser S value was only 1,000. Oops!!! My lasers were really at 10% power when set to 100%! And I had my X speed at 500mm/min and y and 400mm/min, so that was it's max...

Picked up a 2W IR laser and started playing with it! It's the Sculpfun IR 2 that was on sale recently and I mounted it to my Anolex CNC machine. I found out that the interval makes a HUGE difference!! The IR beam is .03mm wide, so I set the interval as that and kept getting gold color. I may...

Micarta will patina. The darker color is the outer bark that reacted to light exposure over the years. It's real.

I got some GatorPiss a while back. I was using diluted Ferric Chloride, but wanted to try something different. I usually take my blade up to 800-1500 hand rub before acid etching for damascus. With Gator Piss, I can get visual contrast quickly, but the steel surface is still smooth and shiny...

I leave the mill scale on the blades during the HT and the first tempering cycle (I do a 300-325 snap temper on everything after the quench/cryo). Then I straighten, clean up the blades and do the rockwell testing and re temper as needed, all before grinding bevels. The mill scale ensures that...

Ken, I sent you a PM with the Excel Spreadsheet cut and pasted into the message. I couldn't upload the actual Excel file here. If anyone else wants it, let me know!

$1200 roughly. I have an excel file somewhere, need to find it!

Bark River uses a loctite glue and activator, that may be faster?

Sometimes adding hardener doesn't speed up the cure time, depending on the epoxy. If adding heat, I would not go over 100 degrees. I have had epoxy fail when I got it too warm before. Most epoxies are 150-212 max temperature, so 120 degrees is pretty close to the lower end.

JB Kwik Weld sets up pretty quickly. It's a bit more than 5 minutes, but I usually start shaping the handles around 30 minutes later. It will set up quicker if it's warmer, so I often put the knives in the bathroom with the bathroom heat running to help it harden up faster. Even without the...

Very nice!! Wharton Taylor makes nice stuff!

Yeah, I built a 27" long, 7" wide, 6.5" tall chambered oven with a WiFi Ramp/Soak PID, element kill switch, door shut off switch, etc for around $1200, not including my screw ups! Here are some pics of my build list. I went with RedBeard's wiring method/schematic and Jarod Todds design using...

Yeah, the ones in the picture on the blog are poultry sized. I have done some with 5" long blades and others with 18" long blades for cows. These are 18" x 2" blades in 1/16" Magnacut, 62 HRC, 24" OAL. Customer wanted heat treated and rough ground blanks for his buddy to finish off and do...

And remember, if we use a lower austentizing temperature, we have less retained Austenite. The RA adds some toughness to the steel as well. Using a higher Aus. Temperature means higher hardness, but more RA which the sub zero helps reduce. If I'm going for 62 in magna cut, I can get there...

With the speed rail, they usually have some gaps in the welding of them, so they're not watertight. I'm not sure if they'll be much practical difference with a dry ice slurry immediately after the blades get to room temperature, or liquid nitrogen, or liquid nitrogen over dry ice. I dont know...