Adding to the Sticky?

[Keith_H]

We recommend using the sticky here quite a bit, why don't we add to it? With the amount of great info on here, we could make it a nice article.
I think that these topics could be reiterated there (In no specific order):


Pins and tubing
Mosaic Pins
Working and finishing natural and synthetic handles
Forge information
heat treatment
Anti-scale techniques
How to grind
Etching and Stamping
Sheaths and how to make them
Ovens and salt pots
Hot and cold bluing
Clay quenching and Hamons
Grinders
Shipping Knives
Non-Ferrous metals
Anvils
Wrought iron
Stabilizing and vacuum chambers
Books
Pattern Welding
Steel suppliers
Pins and tubing
Mosaic Pins
Working and finishing natural and synthetic handles
Forge information
Heat treatment
-specific steel directions and temperatures
-quenching
-quench oils
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Glue


Mind you, I don't mind restating the answers I was given to my really basic questions, but I think that it would be a resource. Especially for people without a search (google doesn't always find things, and when it does it is often a mishmash of words)


I don't want to be rude getting somebody else to modify it, but I would be happy to send in links.


What do you think?

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Kieth,
The stickies could use a good cleaning up ( many old links that go no where anymore), but they are closed to editing except by the mods. If you have items, or a list , to add, email a moderator.

It would be a big job, but someone needs to delete all the dead info and update some other links.

Making the stickies a tutorial/info site that is referenced like you listed would be a task for a dedicated website. Several years ago, Hamsa ( pakoraman) set up exactly such a site. I moderated it. He became unable to keep the site up and it is currently unavailable.
The site was exactly what you want. Anyone could submit a link to a information, suppliers, charts, or tutorials. The amount of searchable info was huge. If/when I ever get a web site set up I plan on having a similar thing.

Anybody who is web savvy want to set up a site like the old knifehow.com ? I sent an email to Hamsa to try and get the domain name.

Stacy

 

[Josh K]

Kieth,
The stickies could use a good cleaning up ( many old links that go no where anymore), but they are closed to editing except by the mods. If you have items, or a list , to add, email a moderator.

It would be a big job, but someone needs to delete all the dead info and update some other links.

Making the stickies a tutorial/info site that is referenced like you listed would be a task for a dedicated website. Several years ago, Hamsa ( pakoraman) set up exactly such a site. I moderated it. He became unable to keep the site up and it is currently unavailable.
The site was exactly what you want. Anyone could submit a link to a information, suppliers, charts, or tutorials. The amount of searchable info was huge. If/when I ever get a web site set up I plan on having a similar thing.

Anybody who is web savvy want to set up a site like the old knifehow.com ? I sent an email to Hamsa to try and get the domain name.

Stacy

I'm web savvy (web design/php/css the whole bag of tricks), but not knife savvy. If you had a list of individual pages and what you wanted on them I could do something like that.

 

[Keith_H]

Thanks. I see the same questions pop up here quite a bit (like on a basic steel to use) That could be easily answered in the sticky. I will start on it soon, nothing too drastic, though. I am kind of hesitant because I am not an expert and all things I would put in would be re-hashed (like metallurgy from Kevin Cashen)

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

The old knifehow site was divided into topics. Each topic had the appropriate links in it. Categories were forging, metallurgy,grinding, HT, equipment, tables and charts, suppliers, hammer-ins, groups and societies,Japanese blades, books and videos,misc.,axes and tomahawks, and more. At its peak there were something like 400 tutorials and info sites. There was a submission page, where people could post a link they found ( or a thread from a forum), any comments about it, and their name. The moderator would check it out, and then move it to the proper section, crediting the submitter ( and the source). Sadly, there was a flaw in the security protection, and the site was invaded by Viagra adds. They appeared by the hundred in every section. We closed the site, and Hamsa rebuilt it. Then he had some personal and family things come up....and it is currently not running. If someone is interested in this type of thing send me an email.
Stacy