Badger1875

Hi Dave, I used the ITC 100 and it was a pain to get in Germany, till I got in contact with Anvilfire, (he sent me some). ITC 100 is working fairly well if you don

a few years ago I had a booklet of a steel company with all the sorts of steel what they made. they where specialized in railroadtracks and what they showed, was all over 0,6% carbon and somewhat mangan, nothing else really countable. The grade of carbon should work for normal blades and tools and a hardness around 58 HRC should be reached easily. Badger

Congratulations!!! I wish I could say that may first hook looked something like this, I was about twenty years older and the hook was nothing to show!!! Keep your son in the track, this is some awesome talent here... !!! For holding the pliers is no other help as training, for the pressure you have to come up with, to hold the material, bend a c-clamp in a size it will fit and hold the ends of the pliers together. This way your son only has to hold the pliers and not squeezing them together, too. Badger

@ All Thank you all for the heartly welcome here!!! Just want to show my latest project: click here! The blade is forged from my own damascus, around 160-some layers, German Silver and Grenadill from Mocambique, the sheath is handsewn and hand dyied leather. Length over all 11", the blade is around 1 3/8" wide, the weight is about 11 oz. I hope you all like it and wait for some comments Badger

Sandblast it! This is the way I go and I never had any problems with it. If you use acetone or any other solvent, you still might keep something on the surface, except you wash it. And even then the time will come and there is so much oil, grease or so in the acetone (or so), that it will cause problems again. Badger

Hello in here from Good Ol

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