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Linear Actuator has too much slop in it. The rest of the setup is rigid, but I need a better linear slide table. This one has an acme type screw, so under pressure, it will unscrew and the bit will go up a little. The table the scope rail is mounted to has slight wiggle to it, which...

I did some upgrades to this setup to get the hold spacing figured out before I finalize everything! Used some scrap steel I had lying around for the angle iron and adapter plate. I went with shorter pipes and have flanges top and bottom so I can bolt them to the aluminum cross piece to make...

1095 I believe? Maybe because it was 1975 degrees?

And that brings up another question! Stainless foil pouch, 1975 for 15 minutes, PLATE QUENCH, then cryo, then tempered at around 375 to get down to 62-63 on what I thought was AEBL. So it looks like a plate quench in a foil packet worked on the carbon steel????

Welcome back! Knives and hot rod look awesome!

Kinda have a funny update for you guys! Remember this one? Learned yesterday it was not AEB-L! LOL. I guess I did some blanks in carbon steel and in AEB-L back in 2013 or so. I thought the blanks I pulled to heat treat recently were AEB-L, but I noticed it wasn't as tough as I was...

Yeah, I am waiting until I can get more consistent forging results with 52100 before going to the ApexUltra! Heat/hammer control isn't that great yet, so I have been practicing on other steels. The AU I have is around .200" thick, so it's already fairly thin. I want to make a chef knife from...

Working on these. Orange AmeraGrip on Nitro V and Canvas Micarta and green pins/liners on the Magnacut one. Had a 52100 failure. Working on this 6" blade, found some squiggles near the spine, put in a vise and snapped it easily. Guessing from working it too cold? But at least I know...

I have the coils over tubes in the top of the oven, so I would have to cut those grooves anyway. I was looking at repurposing kilns for the bricks and stuff. It's around $200 for brand new bricks (about $240 for 3" bricks IIRC). I will keep looking and see if I can scavenge the bricks from...

So I think I figured out the issue. Even after sealing around the door, stuffing the grooves for the quartz tubes with insulation, larger brick at the corners, etc, it was still slow. Around 3 hours to get to 2200 degrees! On BFC, one of the guys mentioned the Chinese IFB. Yup, mine looked...

I have been busy with work and stuff and try to post a bit here and there with what I am working on, but there hasn't been much traffic on the site in the last several months. I think the slower economy means people are picked up less new hobbies or spending money on knives and stuff unless the...

Finished up the 2nd blade!

Did some forging a couple weeks ago. Left 2 are 8670, middle is 52100, right 2 are 144 layer 125CR1/15N20 damascus, and first ladder attempt! Nitro V and Vintage Tri Color Canvas Micarta handles, natty micarta pins and lanyard tube: And the first 125cr1/15N20 blade! Kevlar guard and...

I like my AmeriBrade! I don't use many accessories, so the larger 2" tool arm isn't much of a concern to me. The misting topic is a good point for an aluminum grinder, but I wet my belts with a sponge and haven't had any major rusting issues on my AmeriBrade yet after doing that for a couple...

Used my oven for stainless finally! 10 Magnacut blades and 2 AEB-L blades heat treated and cryo'd at home!! Process went well using the foil packets and then the nitrogen. Tempering took a while because I was creeping down on the HRC numbers (Magnacut was 63-65 after the first 300 degree...

I ran into this issue this past week. I had 10 Magnacut blades and 2 AEB-L blades to heat treat and plate quench and a set of 4" x 18" x 1" aluminum plates. I did 2 blades at a time, so I would put 2 blades in, rebound, soak, quench in plates for 2 minutes or so (I just stood on the plates)...

Its only around $3 more per foot than other cpm stainless steels like CPM154 and the same price as S35VN. CPM 20CV and S90V are both more expensive. Nitro V and AEBL are like half the price for a 4' bar vs the 3' bars of the CPM stuff. I got 10 smaller blades (around 7" ish ) out of my 6' of...

The one with the orange pins is a 3/32" thick, 62 HRC Nitro V blade, 3" cutting edge (not including the finger choil), 8" or so overall with a phenolic burl handle from Current Composite and orange pins. Current got the blade this week for pictures for their website, so you may see it there...

And more shop time! Funky Orange/Green fabric handles for a Nitro V paring knife, Oyster knife (premade blank on the Oyster knife), and CPM154 fillet knife. Black micarta for a Magnacut FBBO reverse tanto and Orange Amerigrip on a Magnacut Hunter/EDC.

Happiness is getting some shop time in! Got these 6 finished up this past week!