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This is the second time this happens to me and now I am wondering if this is a thing with double black canvas micarta. The first time with a 3/8" piece from retail vendor "A" and now with a 3/16" piece from retail vendor "B". I am not mentioning vendors because they sell knife supplies and did...

Hello folks. A customer has requested that I use copper liners with the carbon fiber scales on his build. This is going to be my first copper liner. Any and all advise you can spare would be greatly appreciated. Any big no-no's? Optimum thickness? etc. Thank you!

From what I have been able to formulate the overall high-level heat treat process goes something like this: Normalize – releases stress and re-grows new grain structure from a known point. Grain Refinement – Reduces the grain size. Produces smaller and more evenly distributed carbides...

I know at first it would seem logical to say "Of course you want to do this before heat treating!" But I am worried that all that file work may give the blade a reason to warp during heat treat. What are your thoughts on this? If you do file work, do you do it before or after heat treat...

Good morning folks. Hope everyone is having a good day. Here is the deal: I have had more than one experienced knife maker tell me that laser or plasma cutting are not good for knife making. They tell me that waterjet is the way to go. Question is simple. How do you feel about this? Is it...

Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope everyone is having a healthy and peaceful Holiday. – This year for Christmas I gave myself my very first Heat Treat which also happens to be my first Hamon. I clayed-up two W-2 blade blanks with Rutland's Furnace Cement and this is how they came out. Please...

Can the presence of a hamon on a blade be taken as evidence that the edge has in fact hardened?

Just wanted to say hello to everyone. New to the site and to knife making. I definitely feel like I have been bit by the knife making bug because it is the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thought in my head when I go to bed at night. Thank you to all the experienced folks out...