Wayne Mitchell

Not yet, I did t know there was an association until you mentioned it. I will need to research contact info for the association and go from there

Keep going, I'm learning here, you guys are a wealth of information

Thomas, Pleasure to meet you sir. I am in Albuquerque / Wagon Mound, mostly in Albuquerque as I own a construction company, Pallet Strapping you say? my next door neighbor here at the office is in the scaffolding business (rents the stuff) he is always using pallet strapping to tie the legs and planks down to pallets, he throws that stuff away, if I understand you correctly I need to be gathering all that stuff up big time? I do appreciate your offer on the stacks. Happy Thanksgiving.

You are right it is about two inches to deep, it is six inches deep, I'm thinking it should have been like four inches? Thank all of you guys for the suggestions, I see tong racks in my very near future like probably Tuesday :-)

Not sure what the strap was, bought it at Home Depot, so probably very low content, I never even thought about carbon content at the time, just has to see if I could weld it with a forge. i did time it. Right at an hour and half to forge the knife shape from the billet blank. So as I understand your message I need to become much more efficient with the amount of time I work the steel to shorten the amount of heats. Thank you for the advice it will be heeded.

I forge welded six pieces of flat strap into one billet? (Is billet correct term) then forged the blade. I honestly have no idea as to what I am doing in terms of education, I was not able to get the blade to harden. Metal is still soft so will not be able to use as a real working knife

This is my first forge built in my shop