Hi everyone, I havent posted here in a long time, or much at all but when I was starting out and gathering Info this site helped me alot so I was one of those I wanna make a sword first try type, and where I can say I did manage to make something of a short sword it's nothing I'm proud of and only keep it around to remeber how far I've came. One of many things I did learn from that attempt was that controling the heat, and being able to properly HT a large blade has huge problems that come along with it,
3 Years since I started and I've made a couple swords, several shorter swords, some little knives and have a huge pile of failed blades... and with every new blade I see huge improvements, but one thing I was still keeping me away from the longer blades was all the issues with the HeatTreating. So I built this thing...
I just finnished the heat treatment of a 26 blade Jian and the thing worked great, and I could go as large as 40 inch
Not sure what else anyone else here is using but I'd like to see what some of the more experianced people are doing