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Hand Seamers work great to fold over and hardwood rollers work awesome to seal the fold! https://a.co/d/gbpMFAS I've also used a hammer and tapped the seams down a bit more as well. I did 12 packets this past week and only 1 cut...from when I put the roll away and was putting the extra cut...

Yeah, toaster ovens can work for smaller stuff, but I need to do 23-24" OAL blades some times!

Awesome! I am doing a tempering oven next when I sell some blades! I have most of the materials already. I think I just saw on USAKnifemakers that there is a new controller for Evenheat out now? I got an email yesterday about it.

Yeah, I worked 80 hours on the July 4th week last year, so some of that OT went towards the supplies! Never would have been able to afford a commerically built, 27" long HT oven, so I put the time to educate myself on how to do this. It was a fun, but frustrating project! I spent a bit over...

If its AKS steel and hasn't been forged, you should be able to austentize and quench from the barstock!

Man, that is awesome! I may be able to build something like that! I turned a Pipe Vise into a "Hardy Tool" and use the double ended wrench to twist cable, but this looks super slick!

Normalizing at austentizing temperature won't do much? 80CRV2 normalizes at 1600-1650. https://knifesteelnerds.com/2022/06/23/how-to-heat-treat-80crv2/ Depending on where you got the 80CRV2 from, normalizing/annealing/DET Annealing may be better to get the steel into a better structure for...

I spent roughly $1200 and built my own 240V oven, 27" x 7" x 6.5" chamber in it. I went with a Wifi Ramp/Soak PID, premade element, did the wiring myself, etc. It's not the prettiest or fastest (I used cheap Amazon K23 bricks that weight 2.8#/brick instead of 2#/brick!), but it gets to 2200 in...

Yup, those are the exact ones I ordered! I have one more knife to finish, then I get to redo my shop! Get the grinder on the tilting stand, redo my dust collection/replace melted parts (oops, forgot to move the plastic tube out of the way when hogging steel!), get the compressor set up...

I picked up a pair of gallon jugs with large openings so I can fill up the gallons and swap lids if needed, too. Figured 2 gallons should take me through most of my grinding sessions!

Yeah, I got a 10 gallon compressor, so it's not huge! Foot pedal came in yesterday, but I have my 4th 3rd shift in 6 days tonight, so I can't play with stuff until Thursday. Got a bunch of stuff in the shop for Thursday, though, so it may be a while until I get to play with this!

Yeah, I found the stuff listed from the OBM YouTube video

Found the foot pedals with the air hose connections! Is the momentary one better than the one that you push to start and push to stop or more of a personal preference thing?

How do I do the solenoid/footswitch?

This thread was my Christmas list this year! Mister, tubing, 10gal HF compressor, and the concentrate liquid stuff. Just need to get a water bucket and hook everything up!! I will probably add the foot switch, too!

I have some 22-23" OAL 1/16" thick blades I want to be able to heat treat, and then surface grind to remove scale/warpage, so I decided to do a 24" long chuck even though most of my blades are in the 7-9" length. Figured I would do it once! With the 3 150 Magswitches engaged, when I grind in...

Yeah, I use my phone more now since my laptop sucks! I found the button you need on a computer. Above the main item picture, to the left of the item name, click on the box with an up arrow in it. You can copy the short link from there! Thinking about it, the sloppier table may not be an...

I went to the share button on the amazon app, then more, and then the share item link. When I tried to copy and paste the long url, it wouldnt paste anything? I realized that when I did my test run, the table lock lever was very loose. I never tightened it and it had very little if any play...

Sliding table: https://a.co/d/7hJQNf5 Double inner linear rail: https://a.co/d/jlhCed8 I can do links here

Well, I got most of this done yesterday! Still have a laundry list of things to finish up, but it's functional!! I used a lot of the info from Dennis Tyrell's build on Youtube. Step 1: Get your contact wheel lined up with your other wheels on the belt sander so it runs inline. Since I have...