leroyk Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Hello to this group. This is my first day here. I think it will be a blast. I h ave been making knives for about 15 yearsch appericated, Leroy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroyk Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 I gues my message was to long ony part of it leroy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayco Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Welcome to Iforgeiron, Leroy! There's a bunch of fine folks here. Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted T Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Leroy; Welcome to I Forge Iron! It just so happens that there is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Welcome aboard Leroy glad to have ya. Wow Ted, I'm speechless! Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroyk Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 Ted t thanks for all the good imfo. am sure it will help mw a lot. this past winter another blacksmith let me use his forge and power hammer. In three trys I had a moderate sucess, one failure and one really good damacus billet. I had been wanting to try this for over five and finnaly got t he chance. However I do not want to wear out my welcome so I am going to build my own forge an am t hinking of building a hydraliuc p ress for welding my billets. do you think it will work? Thanls again for any input anyone would like to give my. Leroyk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted T Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Leroy, Now that is some exciting news that you got to have some hands on time. It makes a difference. My qualifications for giving you this response is as follows: I am a wannabe knife maker. So please keep my expertise in-mind as I say the following. Due to having a cash flow issue I have been looking for an economic way to create Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroyk Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 hey ted i went yesterday by my frien with forge and hammer and played for about 5 hrs i made t wo billets one about240 layers and theo other oneabout 60 in the latter i put three peices of a damacsus shot gutn barrel and some 15n20 a little pure nickel and some 1095 havn't had a chance to clean up to tell if i got a weld or not will let you know when i clean it up lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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