Bullet Biting, A2 for Oven

JTknives

JTknives

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I keep going back and forth between getting a forge or an evenheat. i decided to sell the 3 A2 sheets i have 1/4" x 12" x 36" and buy eather one. i just cant decide which one i need more. any help, i work mostley with 5160.
 
FORGE imo can do so much more unless your working stainless. plus then you'l have it if ya ever wanna fiddle around with forging.
 
Evenheat, accuracy and control is much better, unless you are doing hamons and even then it is nice.
 
I'm with Sam, get the oven. Taking the guess work out of your heat treating is priceless. Forges aren't that hard to build, I've built 2 and both use a simple forced air burner and produce welding heats just fine.

Bill
 
Heat treat will make the most out of your knives. You can pound out steel all day long, and you can do a successful heat treat in the forge. But in my opinion, you cannot match the consistency from a digital oven, allowing you to faithfully perform optimum heat treats to each and every knife you build. I know many amazing makers who heat treat only in the forge, and I would buy their knives in a heartbeat, but I know if it was me, I wouldn't trust myself to get it right in the forge every time.

Plus, you can build a forge for a whole pile less than an Evenheat.

--nathan
 
You can make the oven and buy the forge. I find forge building to be pretty simple. That could be the reason I have so many. Even Heat is a pretty good deal. You just need to handle them with care.
 
Yep, you can build the oven as well. I did, and it works pretty well. Just takes a bit more $$$ because you have to buy certain parts, where with a forge, you can find many parts in scrap yards.

Or, you can sell the A2, buy a couple of knives from the fellas on here, and build both the forge and the oven!

--nathan
 
My advice is buy the oven, and have great HT, then either built a forge or buy one with your profits. You can do fine with stock removal. You must have an oven for optimum HT and optimum knives, wether forged or stock removal.

I also think you should sent me the shipping cost on the piece we talked about so I can have a better anvil top. LOL. I really want it.
 
o crap, ib2v4u i just plane spaced it out my bad. as much as i love to buld stuff like my grinder theres just somthing about geting an oven new and not having to scrounge up the parts.
 
o one more question. the steel that im goind to be posting in the forsale page, what do you think i should ask for it. i called crucible and admirial and thay quoted me 300-400 a sheet. i was thinking of selling it a 200 a sheet.
 
i say look at websites like flatground.com and figure out how much to sell the sheets based on what they charge sorta kinda. I think your sheets are either wider or longer than what flatground.com carries, but you can still get a general idea. admiral steel is a bit weeee too expensive price wise for A2 in my opinion. :D 200 a sheet sounds too low.
 
well thay had a paragon for 50 but needed an elament so i decided not to get it.






































got ya :D
 
oh, then my bad! But you can still price each piece closer to $278.00 i suppose. I think selling them for $250.00 + shipping would be fair. Probably some really heavy stuff!
 
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