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Well, I don't expect them to come on the show having all the same equipment. When they go back to their home forges and they have no power hammer, and just a brake drum or satellite dish for a firebox with their charcoal briquette forge, they are at quite the disadvantage. They are not coming...

when I first started watching the show, I heard more than once... "I've never forge welded before... " At which point I would face-palm and yell at the TV, don't you ever watch this show?!!! That's like going on Hell's Kitchen and not having ever made risotto! Then I later read that they...

Not a big fan of "rustic" period. Guitar makers do "relic-ing". I have no love of the relic'ed guitar, and rustic knife better be knapped flint and you need to be wearing a loin cloth while making it.

Well I won't claim it. And have no interest in doing it. The way I see it, I don't have to raise chickens to make an omelet. Or work the oilfields to drive a car. No intent of swinging a hammer bigger than necessary to peen a pin. :)

Band saw has a stand now Okay, so it needs a coat of paint. I built it by eye, on the fly! I just kept attachment ng things, cutting away whatever didn't look necessary! I encourage everyone, once in a while, "plans be damned" just start putting things together and beat it into submission...

Woof-woof-woof :)

Not interested in that, where's their equipment? :)

Table added to portable band saw Finally made a table for the portable band saw. I still hold it in the wood vice, so no stand yet, but one step at a time :) Used the modded 4x36 to clean up the corners and such so I wasn't rubbing my hands on sharp parts when cutting things. I so feel like...

File Guide (first attempt) Here it is! Mild steel, no dowel pins. I can glue on some carbide tool blank material later. I don't have the right reamers or drill size or dowel pins so.. if I can drill and ream appropriately square holes, I will try adding dowel pins later. My main reason for...

First step add a ceramic platen. This was a $0.55 4" wide tile I found at local ReStore. I used algle grinder to score a line to shorten it to fit. Then I used the belt to round over the leading and trailing edge corners. I put 2 screws into the existing platen as a stop. Then some E6000. I only...

Not sure I know the name. Actually, I don't really know any of the "famous" knife maker names.

Okay, I may end up with a reputation over this. But I canceled the Alec Steele grinder and placed my order for the Ameribrade. Worse yet, when I showed my wife, she said "why not get the whole thing". So I left a message and email to change the order to the Mastery Package. In case anyone was...

That sounds awesome! But not a project I want to undertake. I put my name on the 3 month waiting list at Jen-Ken

Once again, I am getting myself confused by inputting too much information from divers sources. In some circumstances I am seeing people milling some relief on folders around where the tang would be. In others I see a bigger hole put in the pivot and a bushing put in it. And in yet some others...

Seemed that no matter what I was doing I was not able to get the blade to center and operate smoothly. Someone has sent me some high quality hardeend shims and suggested that they would help. I haven't had the chance to try them yet. But I am also concerned that there may be some hole slop...

That book is on my short list. But in the mean time... I get that it is not a "toss your hands in the air" process. But I am aware there are people out there that are doing this without a proper HT oven. They are limiting themselves to very forgiving metals, which they tend to list 80crv2...

How does one effectively manage a heat treat with this kind of setup? Either 1/2 brick or torch. When I look up specific steel specs, it will say something like xxxx degrees, soak 5 minutes, quench (in one medium or another). Then temper at xxx degrees for 2 hours. Usually giving different...

So I pulled the trigger last night and the Alec Steele is ordered. I will let everyone know how it works out when it gets here. Thanks for all the opinions and advice.

I will pay attention :)

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