Caswell Finish and Maple Scales Questions - Build Thread

[Fixedwing]

I love the shape, and the handle is looking great. But it looks like you have some pretty heavy grit scratches still in the plunges. Are you going to sand down through those?

Those areas are proving to be difficult to work, but I do plan to work them more before heat treating. Thank you for the encouragement; this will be my first finished blade.

I found this video which will help me -

 

[Fixedwing]

I had some time today to work on the jimping; I'm still trying to mimic the Winkler style. It is aggressive, but gives good purchase and feels right to these old leathery hands. This was done free-hand with the very small flat file shown. The Nuclayer Noscale arrived the other day so this blade is getting closer and closer to heat treating.

 

[Fixedwing]

So today, me and my son are working with the forge to get reacquainted with it (it has been a while) and are putting together a set of slot jaw tongs from Ken’s Iron. Anybody happen to know where I can find a couple of 1.5” threaded air adjusters “chokes” for the venturi openings on my forge. I believe it is running too lean and need to find a way to tune it while running different gas pressures.