The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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They can do it for you but you need to call and talk to them before sending it.
I have cut some scales and blocks (that were large block dried for a year) and stacked them above my hot water heater(low humidity) for about a year and now it’s approximately 10% moisture so it’s ready to send.
Make a drying cabinet if you plan on doing it often. A foot locker and a 75 watt bulb are basically all you need. A moisture meter is a good thing to have to see what the progress is.
"Dry wood" is also relative to where it is housed. OP lives in Arizona(desert)...dry there is under 8%. Move to the Pacific Northwest (a temperate rainforest) and the driest you are going to get it air dried is around 10-11% due to much more humidity in the air. I came across a chart a few years ago that showed what to expect for different regions. I have a moisture metre. I let K&G know that my wood is about 11% when I send it. Last time it took a few weeks because my blocks were "in line" to be dried before being stabilized. They didn't charge me any extra to dry them and get them below 9%
They may not want to give you a full tour. “Stabilization Espionage”Something I learned yesterday as well, K&G is literally in AZ where I own a cabin. I’m going to have to give them a holler and see if I can just hand drop off the woodwhat a cool experience that would be!
They may not want to give you a full tour. “Stabilization Espionage”