What's going on in your shop?

Sean Jones said:
Here is the drop point I've been working on after I dipped the blade in 50/50 Ferric Chloride and distilled water for five minutes. I'd say there's definitely Hamon activity but kind of blotchy. After dipping I went over it with 220 grit again. I'll keep going and see how this turns out at about 800 grit.

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Hey Sean, what steel are you using. I'm not seeing a lot of hamon activity in that blade, in fact it looks more like heat treat scale.
Can you share the process you used.
EDIT - I went back to see you used 1075. That should have produced a good hamon. Before I got my heat treat oven it was always a toss up for hamon using my forge.
 
opaul said:
Hey Sean, what steel are you using. I'm not seeing a lot of hamon activity in that blade, in fact it looks more like heat treat scale.
Can you share the process you used.
EDIT - I went back to see you used 1075. That should have produced a good hamon. Before I got my heat treat oven it was always a toss up for hamon using my forge.
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It's 1075. Since you point that out, I'm not entirely sure now. However I've sanded it down quite a bit with 220 grit. And I would think that any scale would come off when I put it in the Ferric Chloride? This is my first try at a Hamon so maybe I'm totally off base.

I need to even up the grind on both sides. Maybe when I do that something will be more apparent one way or the other. I did heat treat it in my Atlas forge and then used AAA oil. That's all I have for now. This is one of the reasons that I either need a heat treat oven, or need to send my knives out to be heat treated.

Thanks for the input
 
Sean Jones said:
It's 1075. Since you point that out, I'm not entirely sure now. However I've sanded it down quite a bit with 220 grit. And I would think that any scale would come off when I put it in the Ferric Chloride? This is my first try at a Hamon so maybe I'm totally off base.

I need to even up the grind on both sides. Maybe when I do that something will be more apparent one way or the other. I did heat treat it in my Atlas forge and then used AAA oil. That's all I have for now. This is one of the reasons that I either need a heat treat oven, or need to send my knives out to be heat treated.

Thanks for the input
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I thought it looked like some decarb on there too. It can be pretty thick. Last one I did I took about .005 off each side to get to “good” steel.
 
Finished the new clamshell ribbon burner forge for the shop...
https://imgur.com/NK5fybP

And now that that's finished...my first completed knife in over a year... 8" crushed-w's chef's knife for my brother
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