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I am hoping my welding gloves will work well enough to get started. If not I will upgrade. :)

I am open to just about anything. I just didn't think I "could"

I discussed specifically what I was doing with Ken. These were his suggestion. Funny thing, I was thinking about retrieving the knife one way and he suggested a different way. In the top loading kiln, there is a pin placed through the pivot of the blade. This pin lays on 2 parallel pieces of...

Okay, I ordered a pair of V-bit tongs from Ken's Iron. Wish me luck :)

And, you don't find yourself having any problems grabbing smaller stock with the wolf jaw?

I have a Jen-Ken Air Bath 16 (Vertical Knife Kiln) HT furnace on order. I have no interest in becoming a blacksmith, forging my own billets etc.., so I have no gearing up for a forge and associated paraphernalia. It occurs to me that is the opposite of most people who start with a forge and...

Those tongs look cool, but I have no forge capabilities. Simple as they are, they still require some hammering and upsetting and jaw modification.

I am focussed on smaller knives. Pretty much soda can might be big enough :) I was thinking the small rectangular ammo cans holds a gallon if lucky.

Could you just jam it into some vermiculite, like when trying to anneal other steels? Or does it have to cool faster than that?

I am still waiting on this, but starting to plan ahead. The one thing I hadn't considered was the quench. So the questions come to mind: Keep in mind, my main focus is on folders, with potential future thoughts on kitchen & dining cutlery. Initially I will be working mainly with 80crv2, 108X...

When looking at scale material I see "jigged" bone as well as other materials claiming to be "jigged". How is this made?

What I lack in actual knife making skills I make up for, with verbosity :)

I usually try to hold back on advice in most situations. Much of the time it is never received well. Especially when it is unsolicited. So, there are 2 pieces of advice I give to new parents, and I limit it to these: 1. If it isn't funny at 120lbs then its not funny at 20lbs. 2. Accept all...

At some point I would like a lathe. The general advice you get from machinists groups is to buy a lathe first. They argue that though you can do most milling operations on a lathe, and most lathing operations on a mill, the lathe is the only one that can completely build itself. I have never...

True enough. I take different advices and process them. Sometimes I follow them to the word, other times just in spirit and other times I disregard them. :) Strategies. It's all about strategies.

I know it is bad form to answer your own question, but I just got off the phone with Grizzly and the tech explained to me that the actual footprint is not that deep, or actually that wide. Those numbers indicate the table and wheels as well. The bolt down footprint is more like 8x10 or something...

My advice to any n00b in any vertical is hurry up and do the things you can before someone tells you it is impossible. Once people give you advice you start taking it as gospel because, well, these are the experts, they must know something. There are things you won't even bother trying once...

Okay!!! This is ordered with a few extra pieces from Amazon. Now the big issue, where to put it! Suggestions? Obviously it goes in the shop, and I am now starting to strongly consider segregating wood tools from metal tools. But that is not the issue. Since I didn't opt for the $500 stand, what...

Sounds great

Fill a niche and hope for the best. I am not sure everyone can go out and sell a $1200 chef's knife like Jason Knight. Especially in a kilt. :) I would be concerned that with many suppliers I have spoken to, a lot of them complain that the popularity of FIF is giving them plenty of business and...