LastRonin

"American found innocent by way of temporary insanity. His lawyers argued that he was suffering from PTSD. He thought it was a birch."

I haven't built one yet myself, but do work in an industry that deals with pressurized cylinders, so the statement I am about to make comes from solid foundation... If you do not know the pressure rating of the cylinders, do NOT try to use them. High pressure blowouts (especially of flammable things like hydraulic fluid around forge temperature items) is dangerous... Life threateningly. Not just to you, but anyone nearby.

Not this year. Those are store bought. Was too busy to get things together.

Ok, must have been cause I was using my phone.

Link takes me to the newson6 site but no vid of the smithing can I find

You never watched "Crocodile Dundee"?

Anything is workable with the right tools. Now, if you are asking if it is forge-able (spelling?), Not likely. It is the highest melting temp metal, is extremely dense and is brittle.

Wow... I need to remember where I put the pieces and get back at it. Though now the title is wrong. LOL I made my 'First Real Knife' this past weekend.

Stormcrow: Thank you. I hope it wasn't a fluke/ beginner's luck. I enjoy the creative process. So I try to pay as much attention as I can to resources before attempting a project. It's worked pretty good for me so far.

I lined my soup can forge with kaowool

Thank you Charles. I'm not fully converted to the Dark Side... But definitely tainted

mitchforging: thank you. It was a lot of fun. latticino: Thank you. I was very worried as I plunged it into the oil. I don't mind advice or criticism, as long as the provider doesn't mind if I heed it or not. As to the two points you brought up, I hadn't really thought about 'traditional' plunge cuts, this was what I had invisioned, as was the bump at the top. I personally like the look, but understand your points and will definitely keep them in mind if I ever make one for someone else. Oh, I'm not giving this one away. It is already been put to use, washed and put in my knife drawer. My first "knife" was a kso made from an old broken box end wrench. The second knife I did anything with involved no forging, I just made new aircraft aluminum scales for a small folder I found that had been run over. The third was a month ago, before I hit the belt sander and my first experience of the horrible "TINK!" of a blade cracking in quench. (I didn't preheat the canola oil, and I believe I had some water at the bottom). So this is my first successfully completed forged knife.

Ok, I had no choice but to try. I got a 1x42 belt sander. So of course I HAD to try making my first real knife. It started as an old rusty Nicholson bastard file and a piece of unknown hardwood flooring. I forged it as close to shape as I could, then ground it closer. Normalized it three times. Sanded it to 420 grit. Then heat treated it by heating to nonmagnetic in my gas forge and quenching it in heated Canola Oil (estimated about 160F). File skated on it at this point.Tempered at 450 F in the oven for 2 hours. Then I polished it with block and sandpaper. I used two part epoxy (not the fast drying stuff, I read these forums ) to attach the handle. Overall Length: 10 3/4 " Blade Length: 6 1/8 " Blade width: 1 3/8" (at widest point) Blade Thickness: 1/8" (at thickest point)

Got this last Friday for $50.

I think the first rule of a knife fight should be "Don't let them see it coming."

yes you need a good quality adjustable regulator, 0-30psi is typical. And did you search t-burner on here? A 1/2" t-burner would probably work fine for your paint can forge, especially if you move the burner inlet to the middle. BTW, the t-burner was invented by the fellow who posted just above you, Frosty.

or first, if you do it right.

Nope.

Yep. Their basic system using feats and skills and all that, they released under the OGL so that anybody could use it to build their own game around

I pray to God it is a VERY controlled environment! H2S is extremely deadly. CO2 is dangerous as well.

I was asking seriously. Because I know that there are lots of words and phrases I haven't learned yet. But I do enjoy the punnery.

OGL is open game license. WOTC developed the original d20 system. And instead of keeping it completely proprietary like all games used to... they made a version of it available to any who wanted to use it. Used to be that 60-70% of a game designers budget and time had to go towards building the system.

In case it is not a typo for triage... what is a tirage? Surprisingly from me, this is not being asked as a smarty pants joke.

Didn't know WW used D20 system, is it basically the d20 OGL?

Oh yeah, No Yes Me too. Yep, liked it a lot.