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Nice I made my first pair when taking a blacksmithing class still have them and use them but not my favorite thing to do. You did a great job for your first pair, beter than I did and I had a teacher showing me what to do..... LOL

Sorry I should have though to list my steel types, my bad. The steels used are 1085 and L6 (band saw blade) and ended with about 176 layers. I annealed by heating to cherry red and shutting off forge the gas forge enclosing front and back with fire brick and leaving over night. When I shut the forge down the inside was glowing bright yellow so I know it took a while to cool down.

I had a few small pieces of damascus I forged and formed them into tear drops for my sister to use making jewerly (the pieces are about the size of a dime). My problem is drilling a hole in them. I used a NEW 3/16" colbolt drill bit and it did not go through. I used cutting oil on the drill bit but after about 10 sec. it started to squeel and smoke. I did not heat treat the damascus after forging but did annealed it. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help. William

Travis Wuerts uses the baking lacquer from brownells and dose a very light sanding with a fine sand paper to expose the nickel highlights. The lacquer holds up very well and I saw a few knives and they still looked new.

I like the clip on Idea do they have a web site to show the different shapes or do they have just one shape? Thanks William

Messerist Great job in your discription of the process awsome looking knife.

I saw a show on them on the discovery channel and according to them the knives hald a great edge but are brittle, you can break one by dropping it. The manufacture that was shown did add enough metal to set of alarms for security reasons.

Nice work but hard to see detail

Very nicely done and I understand the labor I did some tapering of thick metal and you did a beatiful job of the tapering.

I understand it is possible to straighten antler does any one know how? I have a nice piece of antler with to much curve and would like to take some of the curve out. Thanks for any help William

Very nice am courious how it preforms not being tempered keep us informed

I forged a blade from a chain saw chain, ground it, and heat treated it. I then did the final grind and cleaned it with acetone then etched it in Muratic Acid. The problem is the blade near the handle etched beatifully but the tip just turned a silver gray with no contrast. You can see the layers but not the contrasting black and silver like the rest of the blade. Any ideas what I may have done wrong. Thanks William

Here is a picture of a tomahawk I made from a torsion bar from a dodge truck. It has held up very well and is being carried by my nephew (he is in a ranger unit in Afganstan). The camp ax is made from a leaf spring folded and forged welded.

Nice I will have to try this I looked up the instructions and will post my attempt

If you plan your vacation around visits to old blacksmith shops and hammer-ins.

going back to fishing maybe you will catch a kelt (a salmon that has spawned) I will refrain from comments about hiding it under your kilt

or go fishing and keep it REEL and keep your boat on an even KEEL (is it cheating to do two in one posting???????)

Very nice and professional looking, I like the transistion from the candle stick to the feet nice touch

irnsrgn: I have not seen you post anything you need to apologize for some times you might see a problem from a slightly different view and even though your answer is similar it might be easier for me to understand than the first posting or you could be adding to the first posting, it is like discussing an issue. Keep us informed that what I am here for to learn from men (and/or)ladies with experience like yours. William

Finnr: Forgive my ignorance but how do you pour the bolster with wood in place? Can you post a few pictures of the process? Also wont the melted pewter burn the wood? Thank you for your patients with me.

the steam blew out his ears because the slaw had BLEU cheese in it and he hated the smell

If a doctor went snip snip with out good reason I would be in a really big SNIT, I would I would!!

Thanks for the information Woody

I agree a very beatiful knife and I love the way you did the antler and cherry wood very nicely done. I am also interested in how you cast the pewter bolster. Thanks for sharing William