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I second the recommendation for cabinet makers rasps (not those 4 way rasps you find at the hardware stores) The good ones are not that much slower than a belt grinder. Doug

Nice interpretations of bowie knives. Great leather work too. Welcome to the madness. Doug

Welcome, Jamie. I love to see the ladies take up the trade. Doug

I don't know if I would consider 8670 a deeper hardening steel. The data that AKS lists for it, though I'm a little unsure of it, shows it being quenched in Parks 50. Doug

No way is that a Confederate knife. I think that you are correct that it's a WWII product. I looks more like a Fairbairn Sykes dagger. Doug

Outstanding job on that knife. The handle is really top notch. By the way, where were you able to find .22 shorts?

Both look very nice. How robust is the dichrolam and how easy is it to work with. Doug

Pattern welding steel is known as a perfect welding process, not because it's necessarily strong but because it uses not filler like other techniques. I've never read a complaint about a mono steel blade delaminating. Doug

Yes, I highly recommend keeping a long on every knife that you build. What steel and heat treatment and handle material. You might even want to include a photo. Why do I say this? Because I haven't and now I have a bunch of blades I have little idea of how they were made. Doug

There are castable refractories, like Kast-O-Lite or Mizzoue, that are pretty impervious to flux and stand up a lot better to being poked by your work than Satanite. Doug

Yes, and I remember buying gasoline for 29 cents a gallon and my mother complaining that she once could have filled a large shopping cart for $25. Go back to the Civil War era and a laborer could work for 30 cents a day and a private soldier's pay of $13 and month {$10 for black troops} was a...

Well you can't beat the price point for that one. Not a very good design. It will create hot spots, which will be more of a problem with heat treating than it will for forging. The flame coming right down on the work will result in carbon being burned from the steel, but all in all, not a...

Spyderco are my second favorite knifes, Benchmade is my favorite due to their thicker handles. May it give you many years of good use. Doug

CD, sorry about the misspelling, what I meant is that I have lost more than one pocket knife that the clip slipped off my pocket opening causing it to be lost. I have never lost a knife that was sitting in the bottom of my pocket. Doug

I my mind pocket clips were designed to cause the knife to slip out of the pocket and be lost. Doug

People expect more from stabilization than it will deliver. Stabilized rotten wood is still rotten wood, same for stabilized pinecones. Some woods is like yes you can stabilize them but why. Osage Orange can be stabilized but remember that it has been used for fence post that last for decades...

The show pushes what constitutes good knife making and some of those strength tests are nothing but abuse of the blades, like chopping Elk antlers or stabbing into steel drums. Also, sooner or later, they are going to have to run out of weapons for the contestants to replicate. Doug

You also need to realize that "stays sharp" and "easy to sharpen" are two opposing forces. You will have to give up a little on one to get more of the other. Doug

Happy holidays to all, and for those who have some of that white stuff on the ground, be safe. Doug

Bless you. Doug