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I called my local welding supply yesterday. LN2 $5.61 per liter.

So I'm considering getting a dewar. What size are you guys using?

I don't like the vertical design for knives. Hanging a blade doesn't interest me.

I actually built 2 both from a garage sale $10 toaster oven. Add another 30 for PID & SSR controller. I plan to use my current HT oven for tempering once I get the new oven. Going to try to sell the others. Just starting to get to much stuff laying around.

I built my own tempering oven, SSR, PID controller loop. Holds 450 F plus or minus 3 degrees. But I'd rather spend my time making knives not the oven.

My current oven is a 120 volt, 14" Knife Dawgs from Paragon. Being 120 volts doing a HT on stainless is questionable. If I do a fillets .040 or chef's .100 thick i'm ok. But move up to .130 thick getting a good HT is questionable. Nothing against Paragon but $$$$$

I'm looking to upgrade to a 240 volt oven. So far I've narrowed it down to either a Hotshot or an Evenheat. Any suggestions pros or cons of either, or first hand experience. Thanks for your input

I used the fiber on the blades and the diode on the leather. Haven't messed with any wood yet but plan to.

Well I don't get here very often so I apologize for that. Well I did order a Laserpecker LP5. I've had it for about a month and started messing with it this past week. It took me about an hour and a dozen etches to come up with setting I was happy with. Here are 3 stainless blade that have...

I'm just about ready to pull the trigger on a laserpecker lp5. From everything I've researched it should be able to do everything I want. Anyone have any more knowledge they can share for laderpecker?

I did a heat treat on some AEB-L today. I bet you know which pouch sealed really good.

All righty, I'm back. Since the heat treat oven has proven it's worth I'm back at the laser thing. I'm very seriously looking and have contacted a few manufactures. But they all say there product will do what I'm asking. I'd like to get opinions from guy who have nothing to gain but are...

I have 2 regulators on my tig welder, one is used to purge SS pipe for food grade welds. I'm not sure how I'm going to do it yet, but I'm thinking I'd have the blade in the pouch with it sealed on 3 sides. Stick a small hose into the pouch and turn on the argon and slowly pull the hose out and...

I read somewhere where baby powder helps reduce discoloring. I figured I'd give it a try to save some time in finishing.

Yesterday I heat treated 2 14c28n blades. Both wrapped in 309 both in the same oven for the same amount of time. I lightly coats one blade with baby powder before putting it in the foil pouch. The bottom blade had the baby powder. Can't say one came out of the pouch easier but clean up will...