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im trying to aneal some 01 for a knife (already forged to shape just need to grind). but no matter haw long i make it take to cool it just keeps skating my files, i even had it cool with other hot pieces in the bucket of sand and even then it just skates. this last time when i tried when i pulled it out of the bucket it had curved considerably. im trying to finish this knife for a friend of mine who will be shipping to afgahnastan soon so please help!

the peroxide is a good idea. i hadn't thought of that. ill try it next time i work on bone. when i did it i was kinda making it up as i went. worked ok though ;)

i didn't actually put a pin in mine but hind sight is 20/20 and all

upper bone from front leg of a Florida deer (kinda small Florida deer are tiny) worked for my knife cause it was also small. but i've heard of people using a cow femur for the handle of a sword with the same technique.

i made 1 on my first knife so the quality ain't great, but soak the bone ur using in bleach for about a week, then sit it in the sun to dry off for about a day. do not towel the bone dry or anything, just straight from bleach to sun. then i used muratic acid to eat the inside of the bone away, then i took a file roughly the same size as the tang of my knife and enlarged the inside of the bone to fit. drill a hole for a pine through knife and bone. then get some clear spray laquer and well spray it on lol. then put the hole in the bone about 1/4 full of epoxy, press onto handle, and slide pin in place. be carefull and make sure that you've widened the hole enough with the file beforehand or the bone will split. also you're gonna have to use atleast 6 coats of laquer (atleast when i did it) because the bone soaks it into it'self (same with some of the epoxy on the inside) luckily this makes it less fragile though and it stands up nicely to use (even if u split it )

thanks for the info, just was kinda curious seeing as i've never had anything rust where the black stuff was intact lols, figured it was something that blocked the oxy from the steel :blink:

pics, have them we must :P

what about the forge turns steel black? is it just a solid fuel thing or does propane do it too? is it an oxidation? :blink:

i think the pic describes the knife... ugly as XXXX, but who knows, it may just work :P

this is a cleaver im working on for a friend, since i took the pics i've gotten 1 side ground out but my grinding belts all decided that they wanted to snap 1 after another so i need to get a few more to finish.

how's this hammer perform? what are the techniques used when using it? how is it made? could you make it in a wrap around style like a hawk? i am very curious about this hammer :D

if u have a welder and a grinder you can make some pretty ugly yet very use-able ones

be carfull when welding cable. i always clean my cable in muratic acid before i do any welding with it. my first time trying to weld cable something got trapped in the center (i think oxygen from the rust but i truly have no clue) and when i hit it it exploded quite violently and sent little shards or hot wire everywhere. i still have the scars on my stomach from where i had to pull out some of said wires. so please and i can't stress this enough. BE CAREFULL and prep wire before welding it, the chances of something like what happened to me happening again or happening to you are very slim but why take the risk?

thanks

def saving that reference, thanks frosty :lol:

didn't work... here's the link

as the title says i love the forge in this video, i wonder how it's made? ... kilts for the win!!! <object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cuPmW62WasU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cuPmW62WasU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object>

can you fill it with lead?

ur lucky to have the track. my first anvil was an i-beam, not even the nice big structural kind bu one that was about 1/4in thick. i bet that piece of track will be great so don't sweat trying to find an anvil. :)

wow :o

the only problem is that using diesel would defeat the purpose of making it (gas cheaper than propane where i live)

i still just use two wrenches. hey if it works it's good in my book . good looking knife, looks just like my first spike knife.

doesn't diesel have to be compressed to burn?

all i need is a small knife forge, something with a removable back so i can work longer pieces. but i'd like to be able to forge weld billets in it. i'd like to try it with a small carb first just to check if it works (and for safety's sake)

in a gas engine the injectors are solinoids. but in a diesel the game is about pop- pressure. when enough pressure is behind it it opens. remember, any fuel going into the cylinder in a diesel is forcing it's way past the compression in that cylinder at it's highest point. (probably why the fuel pump in a diesel is so redicuoulsy high pressure)where as a gas engine is essentially being sucked in on the downstroke (or just sprayed in at the lowest point of the piston) so i have no clue which would be better. if any1 has any ideas im open lols. but i wonder it the carborator with a high pressure fan on top would be the better bet. it would atomize the fuel with the incoming air and then you could set it up on a nozzle like a normal propane forge. sorry if this sounds moronic to anyone but im just throwing out ideas. and don't worry glen ill be carefull. lols and if i blow myself up ill make sure not to let IFI slip in any way :P