Q Fausey

A lot of my full tang knife handles have small areas where the wood moves off of the tang leaving a small gap I'm just useing brass pins and peening them over after the clamps are taken off any suggestions? Thanks

Thanks for the help guys I will try some of these

I'm having some problems drilling though my o1 tool steel I first tried on the handle after the knife blade had ben hardend and today I heated the whole handle past critical temp and let it cool I still can't drill through my drill bits are fairly new and drill trough my other knifes fine any suggestions.

All right it looks as if I've done too mutch wrong for you guys to figure it out. So could somebody tell me how a should have done it. keep in mind I'm working on a brake drum coal forge and I'm tempering in a kitchen oven.

Ok when I was done shaping my knife I quenched it in canola oil but there was a twist in the blade so I heated it back up fixed the twist then quenched it agin in the same oil I then ground the blade thinner than a dime thickness as already discussed and tempered it in the oven at 435 for an hour till it was straw yellow after that I let it cool polished of the temper colors and tempered it the same way another time I then sharpened the blade all the way and discovered that the edge got little chips in it even when carving on soft wood then I came here and posted this to try and figure out the problem I do aprieciate all the help so far but we have not gotten anywhere

What do you mean he asked if I normalized before heat treat?

I heat treated after quench and did nothing in between and my edge was way thinner than a dime or nickles thickness when I heat treated

I quenched in canola oil and I ground pretty thin before heat treat

So I bought some 1095 hoping to make some knifes out of known steel. But I have made three knifes with it and had problems with all of them. When I went to test them I picked up some pine from the garage floor just to carve a little and see how the knife cuts but it kind of flattened the edge were I cut so I found a knot in the wood and carved that and it chipped the blade. So I figure I did not temper it enogh so today I tempered one of the knifes at 435 degrees for an hour twice and I seem to have the same kind of problem. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Here is an example on this knife I tried for a long time to fix it but I was grinding both sides at the same angle and still could not correct the problem. Thanks to you guys who have already replied just wanted to add pics so you could see it.

So I have be forging knifes for a wile and just got a nice grizzly knife making belt sander and have noticed a trend in a lot of my knifes they all have assemetrical grinds and one edge always ends up flatter than the other edge. I hammer my bevles in wile forging and never see any problems till I grind them. Any suggestions would be mutch appricated. Thanks