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thanks guys on the grinder i pretty much let the wight of the grinder do the the grinding. No extra pressure was aplied.I will try to harden it and see what kind of effect i get

bravo this is pure greatness wow :D

should i have annealed the spring steel. to properly compare it to the 1095 that is annealed this pice of spring steel is used in down hole logging tools in gas and oil wells. the pice we call it a bow spring . its purppose is to push the logging tools to the well bore for better reading of the tool. this pice is put in a gas or oil well in depths of 20.000 ft and as shallow as 300ft at 20,000ft the well temp gets to 500,deg

the 1095 is annealed and as for the spring steel i have not annealed it

we scrap alot of steel at work. So i grabed a pice wich is spring steel i think and did a spark test to see what it looked like so here is the first picture.in the second picture is a pice of 1095 steel i got from texas knife supply what do you all think good carbon steel ????

Lol so true

thanks and i sure will im getting set up at home been busy building my shop once i get it all in place ive always liked blacksmithing and working with metal i like the fact that with metal i can always fix it shape it cut it and weld it back together thats why im a bad carpenter lol

thanks will be soaking up every bit of Knowledge

im in laredo tx guys thanks for the info ill be looking up the san antonio group

sure is pretty

here is the belt grinder, anvil and forge

hi yall well ive been looking around to get some info but a little bit about myself first imm new here and kinda new to blacksmithing my main goal is to make knifes by forging them out the old way im a welder by trade and a diesel mechanic and other stuff more like a jack of all trades so i found me a 150 # vulcan anvil and built a gas forge out of 3/16 stainless steel and lined it with 2" kae wool blanket and coat it with ITC the forge is 12"X 8" built my own bunner and when i fired it up got a temp reading of 2000 deg but it gets hotter melted my temp probe lol anyways im getting set up at home and soon to post some of the stuff im working on been reading up on some of the post here and have found a lot of usefull information also built a 2X72 belt grinder that ive got running at 90% it is all welded made out of square tubeing mostly scrap but runs rally good ill try to post some pics of it soon thanks yall and see ya soon

bigger is better in my book :D