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Having another go at this hidden tang thing, guard fits perfect handle wood fits perfect, please God, protect this blade in final grind, it is tempering now 4” drop point hunter in 1084
 

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BossDog said:
Tried some Oxynate 7 bluing salts.
The colors came out but only barely. This was likely my fault. I need to practice with these salts a bit more.

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I sanded off that finish and went to the Nitre Blue Salts and got much better results.
This is san-mai piece with lot's of nickle powder and foil. The metals were mild, A2, 01 with a 1084 core.
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Lot's more work to do on this one but it's coming along.
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Wow!
 
Built a new stump for my anvil. I had a pretty light duty metal stand had built that was much too springy. This is so much better. I had to try it and since I was firing up the smoker first thing this morning, I started early. I have a penchant for rustic, early American/blacksmithy type knives. So I made my very 1st forge and files only knife. Got punched holes and all. I will finish the bevels on the 2x72 stone wheel. :) 153C4322-3E00-42F8-8725-18F5FFA67B8F.jpeg2450ED53-C4D2-492C-AAE8-AB72759443E7.jpegE9973092-5308-463B-BE46-6E1CAA0FEBF3.jpeg8A89D51D-C19E-477D-8D8F-2A46A770D88B.jpeg
 
Randy - Killer gift. There are several internet sites that give their heat treating recipes. Knife Dogs has a few. I had to look for my first shot at stainless. I think Bossdog has some of them on his website, also.
 
Dennis Morland said:
Randy - Killer gift. There are several internet sites that give their heat treating recipes. Knife Dogs has a few. I had to look for my first shot at stainless. I think Bossdog has some of them on his website, also.
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Thanks Dennis. The manual has a lot heat treating schedules. I’ll look around. Lots of reading to do.
 
USA Knifmaker and Alpha Knife Supply have a few recipes. I think Kevin Cashen has several on Knifedogs, somewhere. When I got my oven, there was an online printout with several of them. It has been a while. Maybe it was on a CD with the oven. I will have to look when I get home.
 
At my boys Wrestling tournament now, between matches Im looking on here this is what I’m working on now, I made a nice guard and handle and a nice blade last week, problem was that once it was all glued together, it didn’t match at all. So I made a bowie blade and started over on the handle, same materials including the other half of the handle block I split for last weeks knife
 

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Jon Buescher said:
At my boys Wrestling tournament now, between matches Im looking on here this is what I’m working on now, I made a nice guard and handle and a nice blade last week, problem was that once it was all glued together, it didn’t match at all. So I made a bowie blade and started over on the handle, same materials including the other half of the handle block I split for last weeks knife
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Finished her up
 

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