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mullet:
 madcrow, I put it at the top. We need to keep it where everybody can see it.  :D

madcrow:
It's nice to have friends in high places.  ;D

radius:
madcrow, q for u:

after you heat and quench the blade, freezing the carbon atoms as carbide, is there a time limit on doing the heat temper by baking it in your wife's oven?  Or can it be any old time after the knife has been shaped and put through the quench?

Another q:  To make those cool damascus blades you make, have you tried using twisted cable?  I saw a guy do that (don fogg or somebody) and it looks pretty damn cool.

Scott

madcrow:
I don't wait between quenching and tempering.  Most of mine are from sawblades which is L6 metal.  Some of the other metals work better if you wait though.  As far as the damascus goes, I think you have me mixed up with Mechslasher.  I have never posted damascus, but I have seen it made from some types of wire cable, chains from chainsaws and other things.  It takes some serious forging to make damascus.

radius:
oh your right, my bad.

i'm not set up to even try a damascus blade by forging, just shaping a blade by stock removal similar to how you do it.  I have some old sawblades kicking around.  I was checking out propane blowtorches in the hardware store today.  The one i looked at goes to 1870 degrees celsius, whatever that is in farenheit...that should be hot enough to make the metal non-magnetic, i think?

I'm glad you started this KITH.  When will we be paired up with the guys we are making knives for?

Radius

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