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Plain ol Bill

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I had four folder blades from ATS-34 I had been working on. Had them hand finished and heat treated and was going to go with the high temper temperature of 950 degrees. So after the Paragon cooled down under 900 I slammed in a quick program to go to 900 and hold for two hours. I was in a hurry as my wife was waiting for me go run to Tacoma w/ her. I forgot the program I picked had 3 different steps in it! To keep the story short the oven went to 1950 after it tempered. Of course the blades were out of the foil by then so they are scrap now. Oh well - that is what happens when you get in a hurry. Start over again tomorrow ----.
 
Sounds more like it's age related than Elaine. ;) :D Hell, at least now ya know what you're going to be doing tomorrow.....
 
Us newer knifemakers hate hearing that even when you have been doing it for Many years bad stuff happens.

There are few things I hate worse then wasted work. When you think about all the hours spent grinding and hand sanding and then nothing to show for it. I guess that is what seperates the men from the boys.
 
Man, bad day for me too. Had a fully finished Damascus blade, 9" OAL. I was showing it to a buddy at work and he noticed the blade had a slight curve in it (must've happened during HT). So, being the perfectionist I am, I put the blade in a vise (protected from the jaws by some Lucite pieces in our shop) and locked the jaws down just below the curve. Needless to say, 4 or 5 really good full body pushes got rid of the curvature....and about 1 1/4" of the tip. So now it's going to be a tanto style!!!!

P.S. This is the first tip I've broken...won't try that again!!!!!
 
HAHAHAHA fun ain't it Bill. I have been working on a guard for a D guard Bowie.
Had just enough damascus made for the blade and the guard, Blades done, sanded and ready for the guard, the guard had 2 days in it alone, slotting, bending, cleaning up. As I went to attach it to the bowie, it needed a little more tweaking, so I placed it in the vise to give it a slight bend, yea right, bowed and twisted the f**King thing and had to scrape it, no way I could make it fit properly after that, next day I started over making more damascus and so on. I could have used it for a pattern, but I threw it far and high and have no idea where it landed. LOL Yep, fun stuff. :grumpy:

Bill
 
My plan B went up in flames today. Had sent another damascus blade to Del Ealy for HT and when he got the package the blade had mysteriously disappears. Had it fully ground and ready to go. Maybe damascus isn't my thing....
 
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