Woody

My prayers are with you and your whole family, May God Bless and Heal your brother. Woody

In addition to my Liability Policy, I have a $1,000,000 umbrella policy that kicks in if a claim were to excede the limits of my liability policy, it only costs a couple hundred a year for this additonal protection. Remember there are only two types of people in the U.S. Those that have been sued and those that are about to be sued. With that in mind, look at what you have and what you want to keep then purchase the appropriate amount of insurance to protect it and yourself.

It is easier to be a blacksmith than a carpenter. If you cut a piece of lumber too short it is always too short. If you cut a piece of steel too short you can always stretch it a bit :)

Any of the vegetable oils (Linseed oil is a vegetable oil made from flax seed) tend to oxidize and produce heat that will cause spontaneous combustion. There has been more than one house fire caused by people wiping up spilled cooking oil with a towel then washing the towel and throwing it in the dryer where it ignited.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, may God bless and keep all of you. Woody & Jackie

Congratulations, I have a 150 lb Vulcan, good anvil.

I have plans, contact me and I can email them to you. when the Blueprints are available, you can see the finished bellows there along with step by step instructions.

Jr. My prayers are with both you and Cookie. God Bless and keep both of you. Candy went through a similar episode, the Pulmonologist was prescribing meds and also the Cardiologist was prescribing meds. Neither was looking at what the other was doing. Make sure someone that knows takes a look at all the meds Cookie is taking and be sure that they all interact well with one another. The steroids will cause an increase in blood sugar levels. Be sure they keep an eye on that whenever the prescribe them. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to both of you.

ASI Code Type of Steel A Air hardening D Die Steel F Carbon/Tungsten H Hot work alloys L Low alloy M Molybdenum O Oil hardening P Casting Steel S Shock resistant T Tungsten W Water hardening The number then refers to the specific composition of the alloy.

a google search should find it for you

Extremely classy blades

That is just fabulous, an absolute beauty

This s the latest update from Niki, Ainslee's mom. Ainslee is doing good and should be released sometime today. Thurs Posted 6 minutes ago Hi. Jay brought my plug, so I FINALLY have access! :0) We are still in the hospital. We will be here awhile longer. Ainslee isn't very happy & she's in & out of it. We had an xray & nuclear lung profusion scan this morning. She finally got to eat. After 36 hrs of not eating, she wanted chick-fil-a from downstairs, so her grandad went & got it for her. And she ate it! So maybe that will help perk her up a bit. They were in & out of here all night, so we slept from 5 till 7. They took off her leg compresses about 3 & the poke this morning was really the only time she REALLY cried & put up a fight. I was so tired last night I forgot to tell you they did get the stint in. Her heart anatomy is so complicated it was difficult, but they got it in. Her lpa had gone from 4mm to 3mm so they put the stint in & then they ballooned it, stretching it to 9mm! PRAISES! Not sure if it will stay that size, but we are hoping & praying! Dr. Petit spent a lot of time with Jay & I last night explaining things & drawing it all out. She was in there for almost 6 hrs & did AWESOME! She tolerated it very well. So thank you for all the prayers on that. We got to our step-down monitored room around 11:30 last night & when we were in recovery & she was crying crying, Slade tried to crawl in bed next to her. It was so sweet. I know I was going to tell you more, but I can't think of it all right now. We put up her banner from her class & she liked that when she woke up this morning. She received a couple of msgs & has enjoyed those. The FBI (the REAL FBI Houston division) came around singing Christmas carols this morning & came in & gave her an official FBI hat & showed her that they had arrested the Grinch! We took a pic with my phone, my camera batteries went dead when they got in here! Figures! Anyway, I got a couple! We told her the FBI does all the important stuff like finding missing kids & such things & she said "like arresting the Grinch" which was the most Ainslee thing she had said since yesterday. :0) We will probably be here a while today, hopefully back to the hotel this afternoon/evening. I will let you know. Love to you all, Niki PS New pics coming too.

I just got an update from Niki: Ainslee was in surgery for almost 6 hours, they had difficulty getting the stint in because the anatomy of her heart is so messed up but the got it done. She is out and awake now and should be up in the cardiac unit in a bit. Tomorrow they will do a lung profusion test to see how well things went. On Behalf of Niki, Jamie, Slade and Ainslee, I thank you all for your prayers.

Ainslee is back in Houston Children's Hospital and is undergoing a procedure today to put a Angioplasty to further open up the artery they grafted to her lung last year and the installation of a stint to keep the artery open. Please remember Anislee, her Mom Nikki, her Dad Jay and her brother Slade in your prayers.

Draper84 I offer my prayers for you and your friend. God Bless you. Woody

Frosty may God bless and protect you all. Woody

I have a 150 lb Vulcan, it's quite and don't have as much rebound as some anvils I have used but it is very serviceable.

The following is an excerpt from "Metallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths & Others who Heat Treat and Forge Steel" John D. Verhoeven Emeritus Professor Iowa State University March 2005 When heat treating to form martensite, toughness is also enhanced by fine grained austenite because it results in a finer lath or plate size in the martensite. Again the same ideas apply. Rapid heating and repeated cycling produce smaller martensite microstructures. Grange [8.3] has presented a study showing the beneficial effect of small austenite grain size on the mechanical properties of 8640 steel. He achieved grain sizes in the ultrafine range of ASTM No. 13 to 15 by a 4 cycle process where the steel was austenitized in molten lead for around 10 s, cooled to room temperature, cold worked and then cycled again. A series of similar experiments was performed here on 3 steels to examine the effectiveness of thermal cycling alone, no cold working was employed. The steels were heated by immersion in a salt pot. Initially the steels were austenitized for 15 min. at 1650 oF and oil quenched in rapidly stirred oil. Then the steels were given 3 thermal cycles consisting of a 4 minute austenitization in 1450 oF salt and a quench in rapidly stirred oil. The grain sizes were measured with the same technique described by Grange [8.3] and the ASTM numbers before and after the 3 cycle treatment are given in Table 8.2. It is seen that ultrafine grain sizes were obtained. Figure 8.5 presents photomicrographs of the martensite structures found in the 1086 steel before and after the cycling. The composition of this steel is in the range where we expect the martensite to be a mixture of lath and plate morphologies, and in the uncycled coarser grained sample Fig. 8.5 (A), one can see dark plates in a matrix of the lath structure. However, in the finer grained austenite produced by thermal cycling, Fig. 7(, the martensite structure is clearly finer and the plates are not easily identified. Table 8.2 ASTM grain size no. of austenite before and after the 3 cycle treatment done here. Steel ASTM Number Initial After cycling 1045 9 14 1086 11 15 5150 8.5 14

Geez Rich a blade a day and all of them beautiful.

I would go with the one that has the best straps. I don't think either is over priced. I made my own from a piece of leather that cost me $60. When the alternative is the possibility of setting fire to your family tree, The price seems very reasonable to me.

uneven cooling will cause warpage. If one side cools faster it will contract more and warp in the direction of the cooler side.

I have a chart showing the analysis of some of the more common "knife steels" and heat treating information on some of them if you are interested, send me your email address via the message function here and I will email it to you.