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NickOHH

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  1. Hey welcome to the site, not to far from you near, near brookhaven. Pm me if your interested in meetin up one day.
  2. I have been playing around with trying to get the hang of damascus and was wondering what to make other than a knife. I tried a bottle opener that works but it split on the tab that catches the cap, gonna try another. What are some things you have made or seen made out of pattern welded steel?
  3. Awesome frog das, nice work, you can just mail that to... Seriously though good job
  4. A pic would be helpful, is it hard like a layer of scale or it could be scale marks from it on the anvil and the texture is getting hammered into it. Could be ash and gunk from the fire? I'm sure there are lots of ? I didn't ask but a pic would be helpful
  5. Add coal before you take it apart so you have some fresh coke to start the next fire with
  6. Check the knife making class write ups out... Covers everything
  7. Ah ok, weaverland got a load of nut insted of pea this time, still burns good, don't like the size though
  8. Oh yea, what size did u end up with.
  9. You can put it in the oven not to hot though, treat it likes ribs in a smoker almost , long heat at low temp because the outside will setup first but can lead to cracks once it's mostly dry throw it in the forge and start a fire for awhile then add coal/air
  10. Nice, what kind of music??
  11. Seems like your best bet, remove forging stress and decrease grain size then ht tip so it stays sharp could clay the rest of it if it's hard to heat just the end
  12. How hot did u take it to quench it? And was the oil warmed or was it cold
  13. Welcome to the site, Just outside of philly in Delco . You will learn a lot here .
  14. Normalize, air cool, a few times from progressively less heat a bit over non magnetic right before it changes and a bit under
  15. NickOHH

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    Beautiful
  16. I don't claim to be an expert by any means but from my understanding, I would say one drift, with a long gradual taper, think triangle profile with rounded corners. The eye should be a taper that matches the wedge that the head requires, which comes down to intended use ie a axe for hardwoods, softwoods or splitting or if you want a general purpose. Eye size will depend on overall weight also heftier head would want a slightly wider eye to handle the increased force. Try all the axes you can and see which you like and which you don't , what patterns you like then match the eye according to shape desired.
  17. Thanks Das, gotta keep me posted if you try one. rockstar, thanks for the tip, it worked better than I thought but I will try cutting the edges a bit with a chisel a bit.
  18. Yup, I agree look into the 55 forge blueprints. I use one, it works well for me. Cheap, works good and was simple and quick to throw together.
  19. So I decided to try my hand at a quick touchmark. I wasn't sure if anyone was using an N which I'm sure is being or has been so I did a backwards one just to see how hard it would be to file in and if it would work.
  20. Hey bud , welcome to the site. There are a bunch of smiths all over PA. I'm out by philly daswulf is on the other side and there's people spread out in between.
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