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fast14riot said:
WooHoo! The baby monitor works all the way out in the shop! I got new grinding hours!

Yeah $25 a 1/4 rack is about right I guess. It comes in 24oz bottles. I have been known to pay more for beer, though. Lately with the new pub down the street I have been trying some more Trappist beers and Trappist style beers. Chimay and Rochefort 8 are two of my favorites, but they have a decent selection to keep me busy for a while.

I know of a local brewers club here, but they are church based...not really my thing...maybe ill talk to a few outside of a meeting to get a basic set up. I already have plenty of bottles.


-Xander
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Cool, brewing is a fun hobby! There is a lot to get in to and different levels of "home made" beer from all inclusive kits with extracted barley to "all grain" brewing where you steeep the grain to convert sugars and then brew that... you can even go in between and do "mini mashes" which are malt extract/grain combos, my favorite probably.

This place is pretty cool http://www.homebrewtalk.com/ it is like the Bladeforums of brewing except we have cooler people here. :D
 
Daniel Fairly Knives said:
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f127/raspberry-sour-beer-experiment-107361/index3.html

Here is an ancient thread of mine that I dug up.... I'm "Mr. Nice Guy" over there. The name is not from the Alice Cooper song, it is from "Half Baked."
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Cruised through a bit last night and today, lots of good info seems like. Too funny about that raspberry beer exploding in your bathroom, that pic did look a bit odd! Maybe ill go halves with my dad and we can make it together, he is a beer drinker as well.

I found that there is a very good supplier only about 40 minutes from here, and an even better one within an hours drive.


-Xander
 
fast14riot said:
Cruised through a bit last night and today, lots of good info seems like. Too funny about that raspberry beer exploding in your bathroom, that pic did look a bit odd! Maybe ill go halves with my dad and we can make it together, he is a beer drinker as well.

I found that there is a very good supplier only about 40 minutes from here, and an even better one within an hours drive.


-Xander
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That rocks! I still find raspberry bits in that bathroom, it hit the ceiling! That beer was a lot like lindemans but not as sweet.

You can get into brewing for a low investment but remember, it is addictive making beer! I had to stop brewing, lol I have probably 15 batches of country wines and meads going for about 30 gal total... I have let a lot of it go too long but it is all good, I can run my truck on it or something. :D
 
Late lunch here... the sun came out a little and I just got some better photos of a wharncliffe I finished up about a month ago, it is hard to get photos lately with all the stormy weather. It is for sale now!

Who needs a custom heavy duty Gnarly Wharnie!?! :D :D :D I was out slicing some branches with it, the zero edge is nice.
 
Getting closer and closer...

I think knife orders are like one of those "quarter pusher" machines they had at the fair when I was a kid... you guys put in like 20 orders and eventually I pop out a knife. :D

LMAO... Just kidding, I swear I'm getting caught up!

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heading to the gym in a few. gotta build some muscles to swing one of your monsters.
 
Daniel Fairly Knives said:
I'm taking a short break here, I have a bunch of Ti gear near completion!

What are you guys up to? :D
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Just been sanding on a new mini to replace the one that cracked during quench. I will be sure to normalize it at least 3 times before final quench to hopfully refine the grain and relieve the internal stresses. I did stick the tip of the mini through my thumb twice today while sanding. That hurts. I think I will clay coat for another shot at a hamon on this one as well. Also I need to make a special tool for punching the hole in the guard, just like I did on yours Daniel. These minis sure are addicting!

Oh and I started smashing out some steel for your SA dagger to make that axis and allies set for you Daniel. I am just waiting on some wood from this guy up in Oregon. It will be the same scale and 1080 like your USM3 knife you got from me.


-Xander
 
fast14riot said:
Just been sanding on a new mini to replace the one that cracked during quench. I will be sure to normalize it at least 3 times before final quench to hopfully refine the grain and relieve the internal stresses. I did stick the tip of the mini through my thumb twice today while sanding. That hurts. I think I will clay coat for another shot at a hamon on this one as well. Also I need to make a special tool for punching the hole in the guard, just like I did on yours Daniel. These minis sure are addicting!

Oh and I started smashing out some steel for your SA dagger to make that axis and allies set for you Daniel. I am just waiting on some wood from this guy up in Oregon. It will be the same scale and 1080 like your USM3 knife you got from me.


-Xander
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I saw that one that cracked, it was looking killer! Sorry to hear that. I cut myself badly on probably my first 10 knives and actually got a tanto stuck in my palm. I stopped sanding back and forth (I only sand in 1 motion now for the most part) and that helps some but they still get me.

I hope your thumb heals quickly! Mine are covered in burn marks from yesterday's grinding Ti, my left thumb has little white blisters all over it. When Ti gets thin (and I usually almost zero bevel the flat grinds on it, it gets THIN) it transfers heat to you really quickly... 1 pass grinding, at the end of the pass I usually scream then dunk my thumb in a bucket of water! I'm getting better at grinding with thumb protection but I still have to hold it with bare skin to get it right at the end.

Yeah normalize that steel at least 3 times with a lower temp each cycle. With "water" quenching steels it is really important. I once was normalizing a knife in 1095 steel and watched the steel form a 1/2" tall bubble in the middle of the blade which started undulating as if it were jello... it then cooled and returned to perfectly normal! It now hangs on the shop wall as a freak of nature! I rarely seen anything so odd... (I had accidentally dropped the knife on a metal surface and the uneven cooling did it)

I have a book with both daggers in it, I just got it recently, man they are a cool design! There were 2 versions that I know about of the German dagger, an black one for officers and a silver/natural wood wood handled version... pretty cool! The double guard idea is too cool, I want to make a knife with the design elements of those knives.
 
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hahah, damn man.. tanto stuck in hand.. lol that had to hurt :D I tend to get stabbed and sliced when around sharp things.. I better be careful O_O

I am going to reshape and handle a pos machete for practice.. and began grinding on that 1084? last night. Hmm I need some stuff! Like a respirator! black snot! YES. And I have my first pile of steel dust! Exciting! Apparently I need to mod this cheesy grinder.. the platen extends beyond the 2in belt making putting in a ricasso hard as FOCK.. so I had to put one in with the slack of the belt, like convex sharpening.. I think it took me an hour, two tries, to get one that doesn't look completely horrible :D

So.. to put in a choil.. I'm thinking I need a spindle sander?

I don't have much time to spend, so things will happen slowly.. oh yeah you will learn this soon enough! kiddo takes UP TIME!

lates for now.
 
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