NuViking
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As far as using stone to line a forge or heat retention,,,try dolomite. It is a refarctory stone and usualy easy to find. They are most offen pink and cream colored swirls and can be easly cut with a diamond saw blade or masonary saw blade on a circular saw. make sure the rocks havent been sitting in water for a long period of time. They are very porus and water trapped in teh rock may cause an explosion.
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I had to put a picture of that in my photalbum. Cheers.
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I love the look of nickle damascus.
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Im digging that.
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Thanks for the info folks. I am gonna hold off on that for awhile. Till I am ready to make differnt tools.
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NOw thats my style of thinking when it comes to a cool looking work knife
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Finaly starting to warm up. Man tuesday up in Regina was hard on my old knees.
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Greetings from the open plains of Saskatchewan. We are gonna need a Canuck section et. LOL
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Well about three winters. I havent done much this winter. The reason I havent forged in teh summer is my old shop is so dry. I am hoping to move my forge to another biulding this summer. I am no expert by any means. I have been making knives for about 6 years but blacksmithing is still relitively new to me too. Very addicting nonethe less.
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If you are dealing in an ara where fumes may be an issue,,Try mustard. Yep the same stuff we put on hotdgs makes a great etching material.
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If you still want to solder the bolster onto a HT blade,,I have been told that vise grips make a great heat sink. I had once soldered a brass bolster onto a smaller kife and was concerned about loosein the HT,,so I sunk the blade ino a plastic pop bottle filled it with water to 3/4 of an inch where I wanted to solder then tossed it in the deep freezer. Now this froozen block of ice with teh tang sticking out was easy to handle and after soldering it I just let it thw. The knife still seemed hard when it was all done. Hope this helps.
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Greetings from souther Saskatchewan,
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Right on. Great to have you here. There are a lot of us canuks here and a few ther folks from sask. We may have to ask the mderators for a Canuck section.:p
