Steve Sells

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the cost of the ITC-100 means a top coat only for me, many others things even Bubble almunia are less $$$ than ITC for the entire coating.

I may as well jump in here too. My log in is not my birth name. I was born David Goldsborough, my birth parents were young teens, and I was placed in the orphanage. adopted and renamed Steve Sells later. I am a proud member of a group that assists adoptees in getting medical information, who in case you don't know are 2nd rate citizens in the US, and in many cases are not allowed medical nor ancestry histories, and many provided at adoption are Illegally faked, mine was. Through my helping others I found a lead to the agency that delt with my adoption placement, as well as a small snippet of a law change in Michigan where I was born that allowed updated medical info, 6 months later I was on the phone talking to my Birth Mother. There are registries where people can place their names to make known their desire to make contact, when a match is found, they can talk to an Intermediary, (just in case) and my Birth mother stated she wanted to talk to me. so with Birth Mother (known 7 years now), Birth Dad (never met but have info), and the family I grew up with, I have 1 brother, and 7 sisters, thats a lot of Xmas cards. also I am Steve Sells, I just didn't start out that way;)

Nope, just get the good stuff, and you wont regret all your efforts then. depending on WHEN you plan to line it, maybe we can share a bucket ? I will be getting a large bucket as I have to line a 33 inch long 4 burner. satenite and topped with ITC-100

Most stores don't carry them, Except Metalsupermarket does carry O-1 and D-2 Straight carbon steels can be had from the internet sites. If you want more detail, then first we need to know what you wish to make, as that has a major berring on the steels to use, also what are you going to do with them yourself? stock removal or forge? There is a lot more to making fine blades than just banging on steel, tho that is the funnest part.

I have heard it said by some that we do not need a "smoke-shelf" in our flues, But have they tried to understand WHY they are used by so many of us? The turbulence it creates breaks up the flow a little, and as a result of this, drops ash and sparks to the shelf. I have not had my side draft running very long, but I do not have any sparks leaving and I get a bit of fines to clean up from the bottom of the flue every time I use it, so it seems to be helping me. Just a thought.

More of us from Indiana joining I see, Welcome to IFI.

Welcome to I Forge Iron, there is a lot to see and do here, have a look around and I Hope to see ya in the chat room sometime.

the trouble with the 5 min epoxy's are they have a usable life of 5 years or so, then they start to let go. nothing worse than have most your blade return tor repairs 5 years after the sale.

A day in the life of a bladesmith: I spent a while in the forge, and welded up 200 layers of nickel and wrought iron for a pattern welded sword guard. I have a nice, tight, 5.5 x 1.5 x 0.75 billet, Wonderful even welds. I use the bandsaw to make the cuts to give me the start of the "TEE" shape for the desired form, allowing a section to "crawl" from the cross piece down the center line of the leaf blade. Placed in the forge, it gets nice and hot in a reasonable amount of time, I take it to the anvil to finish shaping, and using a 2 pound hammer it breaks off at the cut, looks like I found a stress fracture... Maybe Mono steel furniture for this would be better?

Rthibeau makes wonderful hammers, try him here at this forum or in the chat evenings.

I make the beginners use the Old cracked anvil, till I See they have control before EVER hitting anything on my good ones. Normaly I use that for hardie tools.

Welcome to I Forge Iron, We do have a knife chat on Friday nights 10pm to 11 pm Eastern time. Quite a few of us bladesmiths here, you may see some makers you know.

Welcome to I Forge Iron.

may your family find peace, now you are at the end of this ordeal.

"A" series is hard to heat treat and "S" series is just as hard to work, both types can fall apart at those RPM's if the metal isn't done correctly. You can have catastrophic failure, resulting in a very big mess. at least.:o

Derek, You should take a back seat to this, as you have 3 strikes already, #2 YOU do not quench at all to normalice, not rapidly, also #3 NOT OIL cool for normalizing, the OIL is a quench for hardening, It is hard enough to learn things with out false and incorrect information being thrown about. Also fDisk remove the galv, before it kills y ou. Please.

I have no clue what derek is talking about Water will make 5160 explode in most cases.

when you hammer the steel to get it straight, it natural gets stress in the steel from the hammering, cycle the blade to relax this, and to "reset" the steel this process is called normalizing. After you heat, air cool, and heat heat again, it will remain straight . you may have to straighten a few minor times but after a few cycles it should be better

but ya gotta know that Jerry is a member of the >5000F club

I agree that was a most cowardly way to announce a termination. Knee mail sent.

the official IFI knife chat is Friday evening, 10:00 pm Eastern time. at present it is in Blue Print form, just the Tuesday, except we show one set of BP's then the remaining hour is question and answer abiot all things involving blades, not only the BP shown. buit as always feel free to post question in the forum OR join IFI's regular chat room, open 24/7,and the link is in the upper right corner of the forum pages.

what is really odd about this is not the size, but the fact he used Walnut ! Looks great Rich, and as always you set High standards for the rest of us. :)

As for the TOPIC of this thread, I am in Ft Wayne Indiana, but I have no clue how far the person asking for help is away from me. If he cant tell us where he is, Why should I make an offer that may entail me driving 6 hours ? As for the other part.. Most eveyone here knows the mods are here to fill in for Glenn, if they are a problem, tell Glenn, he will sort it out. Maybe we should remember that Glenn has final say to everything here. not a Mod. At the same time the mod was letting him know if he states location he may get offers of help. WHY does the person pointing that out have to have a full name and location what did that have to so with the comment? It DID get away totally from the topic, I believe that called thread hijacking. why attack the mods in the first place?

The first we know as Anhydrous Borax. The second one, we get when we buy 20 Mule team. notice the 10 units of water, this is why some cook 20 mule team to get anhydrous, to remove the water