Bob Cofer Posted September 11, 2017 Author Share Posted September 11, 2017 23 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: 45 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: of course the smell of glowing steel hitting rancid oil tends to attract neighbors with pitchforks and torches not to mention incurring the wrath of any SO's! I am on 5 acres on a dead end dirt road. My nearest neighbor is over 400 yards away through the woods. I doubt he or she would smell it. BUT it does conjures up some images!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 I once experimented with Theophilus' famous quench; only thing that saved my hide was that I was using the exhausted dye vat from my wife's experiment with traditionally dyed indigo that I had been "request" to both fill and deal with... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 As you can tig weld stainless, you might consider just laying the axe on a copper plate and running a bead if hardfacing rod along the edge, flip and repeat. Grind it smooth to blend and sharpen. High tech blacksmith solution to mild steel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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