Rich Hale

Will there be enough for a crowd to MUNCH?

If you want to catch a rattler, drop a rail on his TAIL

So you SAID

Let him HATCH one arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh

TEll the judge the checks in the MAIL

CATCH them so they do not hit the floor

I will avoid the obvious and wait for HAIL

Wonder how this will turn out have to keep WATCH

I had HUNCH Lady would find a word

I should have SENT it already

Then you will need a shed SEED plant and water let us know if it works out

Dont STEP to the food window

A SLAP for the slip

I want a pork CHOP

EVery time I have bought the etchant the radio shack store has told me the did not have it..I just smile and say lets look, usually on a top shelf somewhere they have a couple of bottles, I have yet to find a store that did not have it and yet to find any one that worked there that knew they did.

Need a bench on the BEACH

I would clip but I might SLIP

I work for a tough Boss

I really only made HALF

For a nice finish Lady you gotta remove the burr

Some metal will CURL with heat on one side

It would actually be like shes was BORN

Would offend her to the CORE

Do not go to a bar BARE

Your comment about getting smacked in the face can be easily solved, just weld on a handle to the ends of them and cut the handles off later. You did not mention what kind or size of forge you have or have access to. When I did my dies of 4150 I heated the forge and put the die in and turned the forge off, let the die soak for a while then I fired up and let the forge heat and turned it off for a while I wanted to let the heat soak in to the interior of the piece and not just surface harden. after about three sessions I fired the forge and let it come up to a non magnetic red. I turned the forge off and let it darken a bit and repeated I did this three times also. I oil quenched and that takes a big bucket of oil. A welded on handle is worth gold then. I tempered in the oven for along time I think it was aboiut 8 hours before a file test let me know it was softened enough not to be brittle and chip. I don't have specs on the SS you used but you should research the data for that particular ss. the SS I use requires very specific heat treat temps and times. As was mentioned above if you can put your stuff in a larger load of steel to be heat treated you may save some money. REsearch anyone in your area that is useing the steels you used and see if they send thm out and if you can send yours with. I would start at the heat treat place and see who sends them the same SS as you have and go from there.