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Sorry to hear that, Mark, but health comes first. Good luck with the surgery.

I can’t honestly say, as I’ve never used it. Since I do so much stainless, I use foil on anything I don’t want to decarb. I put all my damascus in foil when I normalize and thermal cycle it, then take it out to austenitize and quench.

I’ve got you down. Thanks for joining in!

I have gotten more activity in a hamon by doing an interrupted quench.

One thing with 80CRV, you will get a lot of decarb with it. If using a file to see if it hardened, you'll have to file a little deeper than other steels.

With a proper set up, I believe you can get a good heat treat on simple steels. When i was heat treating in my forge, I used a square tube for a baffle and had a thermocouple in it. I was able to hold temperature within 5 - 10 degrees. It took some experimenting getting the burners set just...

I've made a hand full of knives with a hamon, so definitely not an expert on the subject. A few of those were not what I would call a true hamon, more a wavy hardening line. To me, a true hamon should have character and activity in it. I would guess that the majority of the blades made with...

Great job! He should definitely join in the KITH.

There’s only a few more days to join in. I’ll draw names to pair everyone up on October 1st.

Great job! Is the back of the blade in damascus forge welded to the front monosteel in the s shape we see, or is the damascus a cladding on the monosteel? If a cladding, you did an execellent job getting both sides the same. Impressive either way!

I'm thinking Oct. 1st to enter the KITH and a finish date of mid or late January. Usually, we have tried to finish by Christmas, but it seems December is always busy with the holidays and for those who sell knives trying to get Christmas orders filled. If anyone has a different opinion, let us...

This year for the KITH, we will be doing a design collaboration KITH. Once paired, the makers will collaborate with the maker they are paired with to come up with a knife profile to build. All other details will be up to the individual maker to decide. The hopes in doing the KITH this way is...

Agreed. I think the main thing for my idea is that the profiles be the same. It is hard for a newer maker to compare their work if they make a kitchen paring knife and the knife they receive is a 10" Bowie knife. I will get an official KITH thread started today or tomorrow with some...

I totally agree with this. I guess I should have said that each pair would collaborate on a knife profile so both knives would have the same blade and handle profile. From there, each maker would make it their own. Different grind height, plunge shape from straight to angled, even swooped...

We can do it several different ways. Themed, make what you want, the idea I posted earlier, or if someone else has another idea. Let’s see if we can get a consensus from those who are wanting to join in on this one and I’ll start a new thread for the KITH.

I love doing these KITHs, so if no one else wants to, I'll volunteer.

Here's an idea I've had for a KITH. Everyone gets paired up at the beginning and each pair comes up with a design for a knife and builds it. I feel this would be beneficial to newer makers because you would get to see how someone else builds the exact same knife. Such as differences in...

I'm in!!

Working on another batch. One of these is out of the new MagnaCut steel that Larrin Thomas created. I'm anxious to test it out.

Welcome!!