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That's a real nice knife and I love the lines of the handle. Good job, Guns. Doug

Dang, Travis, you do good work. Doug

Just as a side comment. If you start to build up a handle wood collection remember to label them. I have a whole lot of wood I have no idea what it is. Doug

Hello, M. J. I'm always happy to see young people start making knives. Doug

If you can look up the alloy formula it will help you make sense of things. Also learn what the different elements do in the steel. By paying attention to the make up I learned that 9260 in the States is basically EN45 in the UK. Doug

I second the recommendation for cabinet makers rasps (not those 4 way rasps you find at the hardware stores) The good ones are not that much slower than a belt grinder. Doug

Nice interpretations of bowie knives. Great leather work too. Welcome to the madness. Doug

Welcome, Jamie. I love to see the ladies take up the trade. Doug

I don't know if I would consider 8670 a deeper hardening steel. The data that AKS lists for it, though I'm a little unsure of it, shows it being quenched in Parks 50. Doug

No way is that a Confederate knife. I think that you are correct that it's a WWII product. I looks more like a Fairbairn Sykes dagger. Doug

Outstanding job on that knife. The handle is really top notch. By the way, where were you able to find .22 shorts?

Both look very nice. How robust is the dichrolam and how easy is it to work with. Doug

Pattern welding steel is known as a perfect welding process, not because it's necessarily strong but because it uses not filler like other techniques. I've never read a complaint about a mono steel blade delaminating. Doug

Yes, I highly recommend keeping a long on every knife that you build. What steel and heat treatment and handle material. You might even want to include a photo. Why do I say this? Because I haven't and now I have a bunch of blades I have little idea of how they were made. Doug

There are castable refractories, like Kast-O-Lite or Mizzoue, that are pretty impervious to flux and stand up a lot better to being poked by your work than Satanite. Doug

Yes, and I remember buying gasoline for 29 cents a gallon and my mother complaining that she once could have filled a large shopping cart for $25. Go back to the Civil War era and a laborer could work for 30 cents a day and a private soldier's pay of $13 and month {$10 for black troops} was a...

Well you can't beat the price point for that one. Not a very good design. It will create hot spots, which will be more of a problem with heat treating than it will for forging. The flame coming right down on the work will result in carbon being burned from the steel, but all in all, not a...

Spyderco are my second favorite knifes, Benchmade is my favorite due to their thicker handles. May it give you many years of good use. Doug

CD, sorry about the misspelling, what I meant is that I have lost more than one pocket knife that the clip slipped off my pocket opening causing it to be lost. I have never lost a knife that was sitting in the bottom of my pocket. Doug

I my mind pocket clips were designed to cause the knife to slip out of the pocket and be lost. Doug