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Bear-IX

Bear-IX

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Hello Everyone,


Thank you for taking the time to read my post. As a new Dealer on this forum, I am hoping to get some opinions on what materials I should carry. I already offer some basic tool steels and refractory products but would like to expand. With that in mind, I would like to ask everyone to post what kind of materials they would like to see posted in the Knifemakers Supplies subforum.


Some of the products I can special order or start to stock:


M390, ELMAX, N680, W1, 440C, CPM Steels, etc.… I can find any type of metal but the simple carbon kind it seems.


Black Walnut, Apple, Cherry, Osage, and Pear are all species of wood that are carried locally at the mills in several close counties. I only deal in wood that grows in the Midwest to make sure I know where my scales originate.


My goal is to carry a variety of products that sell well so I can buy in large bulk and save everyone (including myself) some money while pursuing our craft. I only sell materials that I use myself and hold no exceptions. If I have not worked with it I will not sell it. Thank you again for taking the time to read this post. I look forward to your answers.

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W2 is my favorite steel. NJSB is the only place I've found to get it without a mill run. So if they've got it, great, if they don't, tough. I would love to have somewhere else to get it. But that might be a tall order, because if I can't find it anywhere, it's probably truly not available outside of a mill run.

I am always looking for black line spalted wood. It's just hard to find and I've had poor luck getting it to happen on my own. If you had or found a source of wood that looked like this, I would buy a lot of it. Stabilized or not, preferably not and I'll send it out myself. I don't care about species, just this kind of spalting.

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That's it off the top of my head, and probably a tall order.
 
kuraki said:
W2 is my favorite steel.

I am always looking for black line spalted wood. It's just hard to find and I've had poor luck getting it to happen on my own. If you had or found a source of wood that looked like this, I would buy a lot of it. Stabilized or not, preferably not and I'll send it out myself. I don't care about species, just this kind of spalting.
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Thank you for the response. I will look into the W2 right away and after looking at what I have on hand, here is a pic of some spalted mulberry that is untreated and still in raw form. If you like what you see please pm me for any details.
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As a side note, I also love spalted wood and here in Iowa it is everywhere. Also, lovely work sir.
 
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