Steve Sells

Welcome , look around and bring a pillow, it will take a while to get through all the 120k+ posts in here.

Welcome to I Forge Iron, There are a few thread in the forum, more in the knife sub sections about this, basically, we heat to yellow and tap gently, hitting to hard won't work too well.

The hot metal doesn't care if its the edge, spine or side. You should have learned that in the basic blacksmithing skills you learned. why should a knife shaped thing act any differently ?

Funny as most the time I am referring new knife makers to the knife sticky as that is the start point for knife making. Either I post the same 4 pages of information to every one that asks, which IS why I made them a sticky in the first place, Or I get complaints that a 2 line answer cant answer the question they asked. They have no idea that metallurgy is a 4 to 8 year college degree, that cant be explained to beginners in a few lines of text. So it is now a lose-lose situation as I even had a member accuse me of not being willing to share my information with others! Selfish is the word he used, but maybe that has another meaning where he lives in the UK than here in the states? I have never seen his posts too often in the forums nor has he ever shown up at any of the knife chats to try to teach or partake in any way during the year and a half I have overseen this, since the beginning in fact, I have only missed 2 days since it began, maybe he was here those 2 times hmmm. Where are the other 10,000 members when all the new members ask the questions, and why blame those of us that do give to this forum when we send them to posted information we spent many hours preparing and editing, verifying and are still updating for them to have this information, if many wont read them, but demand a personal touch, do they really want to know?

As I am sure you read the knife sticky's on heat treatments, you know that 1000F is fine if you used H13, you did use that correct? :o

read the heat treating stickys at the top of the knife section, then ask if you dont understand something. Knives are not the best way to start, but Good luck, and welcome to I Forge Iron

This was posted to the Yahoo groups Blacksmith list, kind of a cool idea for a forge blower. Smart stuff from old bikes

nice job Tom, but now we all know you are full of BULL :D

It all depends on a few factors. To answer I need to know what is normal power for your country? Also if you dont have 3 Ph power stay with single phase motors, rather than conveters. US example of 120/208 "Wye" The individual lines will actually measure about 125 volts each at the transformer. Code allows a 5% drop in voltage to the meter of the building, then another 5% allowed to the destination. In reality I have measured destination voltages from around 115 to 124 volts. This hopefully explains a little about power and where the voltage variations come from. US is 60 cycle and has 120/208(Wye) 120/240/240(Delta) 277/480(Wye), as most common in the US, tho I have seen 575 and 4160 volts in large factories here. Delta is more common for light industry as it allows easy use of 220 or 240 Volt machines that could also have been in a single phase system. That has 2 legs at 120 volts, one at 240 (called High leg), and of course the 240 3 phase as well. Having explained this, a 240 volt machine is going to be fine if you really do have 240 volts at your destination. Be aware that many factories would opt for the 220v machine to allow for the voltage drops that we know are occurring. All machines are fine with the normal variance we experience in any electric supply's. IBEW 305 jiw yup I be a sparky

Welcome to I Forge Iron, glad to have ya here.

not yet, low priority winter project.

That makes sense as the head is larger mass than any of mine, and the acute angle of attack at the cutting edge leads me to believe that you are correct KeyKeeper.

There are not a lot of options, most of the multi colored blades are Titanium, not much for cutting bet very attractive. Perhaps you meant to etch, for bringing out the differences between the layers so they may seen ?

It is likely a HOT CUT tool with a handle. I have 3 of various sizes and tapers. Nice deal.

you forgot the head lines at the main page Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com Don't want the members here to miss out on the report of the assassination plots by the CIA, or all the other conspiracy's they report on. IS this a sister publication of the National Enquirer or a competitor ? I didnt see the section about Elvis or the Children fostered by UFO's, are they is a secret file there? LOL thanks for the laugh tho

He is in good hands up there, as he has Weiland and Mimer to assist in his training. On a more serious note, we take our forum more seriously than a kids text message. If you take it seriously you will get alot of help, Welcome to I Forge Iron.

Thank you for your opinion. For the rest of us that prefer informed information, the injection is not the same as what we are trying to prevent, whether tetanus or Flu, though it is a jump start of killed targets, intended to help get our bodies to fight back by creating antibodies. Please read up about it, or better yet ask a real doctor, we try to pass on accurate information here. Not proliferate rumors and fears. People are free to use or ignore modern medicine as they choose.

This is the main reason why we use a fast oil, not water for high carbon, remember that the spec sheets are for 1 inch thick sections, not the 1/8 blades. Mineral oil can give a hamon. Water many times will crack 1080 and higher carbon steels. Mystery steels including old files, need testing before we dump it in water and ruin it. Some old Files may be F-1 and tungsten doesn't like water at all.

got my last one 2 weeks ago when I got my head cut open. every 5 to 7 years I get an excuse to get another one... hazard of knife making, and being an electrician, too many HVAC things with rough edges.

A few days before Pete got to my house for the hammer in trip, he got a spider bite on his left leg. It was swelled up and red, after the next day the swelling went down, another day passes, and I noticed the red area on his leg was larger in diameter... Pete called me this morning. After getting home he saw his Doctor, and discovered it was not a reaction to a spider bite. Fat Pete has LYME, and he will be on treatments for a while.

Welcome aboard

Welcome to I Forge Iron, read all you can, and stay safe.

Welcome to I Forge Iron, you have a few people smithing in your area, feel free to ask if you have problems navigating this site.

Welcome to I Forge Iron, there is plenty of things to read, here and we have 3 search engines. Feel free to ask for help !

When you want to harden, heat to above non magnetic, then plunge into the oil. By allowing it to cool so far first, you have lost the quench window, and that is why it is not getting hard. The interrupted quench at the end is nice for small tools, but you are jumping in and missing a few things.