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Wear your safety glasses and if you can put a divider/wall between the press and the forge would be a good idea. I love my press. I would not trade it for anything! Well, maybe a few things! I used Traveller ISO 46 hydraulic oil from tractor supply.

Something like that happened to me, the check valve broke loose in the filter housing, clogging the line, blowing the return line off my control valve.

That will make a beautiful knife!

HaHa! I use to like leather work now I have to make myself do it. Well, I just need a sewing machine but that is another story....

Thanks, It is my favorite pattern at this point of the beginning of my Damascus journey.

Thank you!

This one is 30 layers 1084 and 15N20, buffalo scales, mosaic pins and vine carved on the back of the handle. Etched with ferric cloride then coffee etched to blacken it up.

I cut a gasket out of rubber tire inner tube on mine

Hmm, i bet it would look cool to dye the epoxy white to fill in the file work and then re-etch the tang...

This one is 33 layers, forged to 12" and twisted 10 times. It will have white liners and i will color my epoxy black so it fills in the file work. I have video on Instagram if you do that kind of stuff

Here is one i am working on now, it is out of the same billet as the first knife in this post. Notice how the file work is camouflaged by the etching. That is why i do not re-etch the tang.

That was 11 layers, I forged the bar out to 11 or 12 inches and 1 1/8" square, I then forged all 4 corners of the bar in so I ended up with a 1 1/8" octagon or round bar. I then twisted it 2 1/2 times. I do not re-etch the the tang, the etch kind of clutters the look of the vine carving so I...

I etch the blade first, then epoxy and pin the scales on then shape the scales.

I am really starting to like the twisted Damascus pattern!

Yes, that is what I am using, I believe kerosene works the same. But this stuff comes in a cool can. Hahaha!

I am using PSC 1000 parts cleaner from tractor supply. I learned this at the ABS hammer in a few months ago

Chris, I have an offer for you, why don't you get 5 or 6 billets ready then drive up here one week end and we will use my press to squeeze them together. After you get that size billet to welding heat it takes 10 seconds on my press to complete the weld.

Very Nice!

Yep, Looks Great!

Thanks to the info on this website. I ordered some AEB-L stainless, I cut and ground it to shape. Then i sent it out to get heat treated I am finishing this one up today. It has stabilized Koa scales, buffalo horn bolsters, mosaic 3/16 stainless pins and the vine pattern filed into the back of...