Heat Treat

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

These came out straight as arrows...

I also got some cool colors from the oxides during hardening, air hardening steels can often come out looking very interesting.

 

[Farchyld]

Sick! I love the flamed look dude.

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

Sick! I love the flamed look dude.

Me too, I wish it was more permanent.


By the way these colors have nothing to do with hardness or temper... that's a different thing.

The A2 is around 61 RC and the S7 is ~58 .

 

[Lycosa]

Cool!
Snow quench?

 

[flatblackcapo]

Are you sprinkling some of your magical yeti dust on the knives again?

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

Cool!
Snow quench?

Something like that!

Are you sprinkling some of your magical yeti dust on the knives again?

Of course... makes 'em tasty! crunchy


I'm on break from grinding, these are coming along nicely.

 

[sloth357]

You need a finish like that on the blades.. or the Ti.. big swooping wave like uhm... stuff

SO.. this tapmatic thing? WTF? This makes threads in holes? I know nothing.

 

[Farchyld]

I don't think i know the specifics on it, but my understand is it helps to prevent breaking your taps.

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

You need a finish like that on the blades.. or the Ti.. big swooping wave like uhm... stuff

SO.. this tapmatic thing? WTF? This makes threads in holes? I know nothing.

Sounds cool on the Ti and maybe the occasional steel one. I usually scratch them on the kiln brick but some look so cool.

Yes the tapmatic just threads holes, it will save me from breaking taps... and importantly from having to wait two days for acid to eat a broken tap out so I can get back to work! It's sort of a clutch for the drill press and backs off when the tap is stressed.

I've got frickies and framelocks just waiting for it... killer looking clips to install!

I don't think i know the specifics on it, but my understand is it helps to prevent breaking your taps.

You called it dude! let's hope these new taps are the right ones, I might have to experiment with these smaller 2-56 ones for clips as they are fragile


These are all ground besides the recurves which I hope to order Earth Brown G10 for tonight. The tantos look insane! The Bowie shape and Hunter have full flat grinds and look phenomenal... pics tomorrrow.