Knife in Progress.

I have to drill the holes soon so I can heat treat it, What do you think: Home made acorn bolts, loveless bolts, 1/8" pins or flared tubing? I have decided on using jade green G10. Thanks!
 
Thanks for your reply, Will. Originally I wanted to use corby bolts because of their beefy look, but pins would look fine too. Maybe I could put them in a pattern.
 
I did flared copper tubing on my first knife... it looked knice! pins would look good too. I dont care for the big huge corby bolt look myself, but to each his own. :D
 
I am down to canola or used motor oil? What do you guys think?
Thanks, I will try to get some more progress pictures up tonight.
 
Here is another quick picture.
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pretty. I'll nominate 3/16 pins.

what did you end up doing to bevel the tip? I ended up making a diffrent jig more similar to yours. do you just move in the clamp so the tip is about where the flat was?
 
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Yeah, so that the file is tangent to the edge. If I were to do it again, I would use a large piece of angle iron because It was hard to clamp when filing the very tip.
 
Your two last posts before, mine... #90 & #91... you file guys are a kick. One of those will and way things. There is a lot of class in that.

Mike
 
Thanks, guys.

Is there anything better than canola that I could find in town?


There is a few marks that I am going to have to work out, one, there is a small dent near the spine of the blade and two, a cut near the bottom of the handle, as if another knife was pushed into the steel 1/64"

Not major, but I notice them!
 
Looks good Keith i just want to remind you because i don't see any holes drilled in the tang drill them before you heat treat.

Bob
 
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Thanks, guys.

Is there anything better than canola that I could find in town?
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Scott McKenzie posts on BS and SFI. He is a metallurgist and quench oil specialist with Houghton International. Scott says, of the things people use for quench oil (ATF, motor oil, hyd. oil, veg oil, olive oil, peanut oil, low viscosity mineral oil), canola oil has the best cooling curve characteristics... fast in the beginning and slower at the end. It will quench fast steels. It is the base for Houghton's BioQuench 700, a quench oil that is a lot like water without the "tink". There is a discussion somewhere on SFI about it.

Mike
 
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The Bioquench 700 is very fast. Canola oil off the Walmart shelf is slower. Houghto-quench "G" (Brownell's "Tough Quench") is better suited to O1 but will handle 10xx steel at 1/4"and less. Canola oil has a cooling profile very similar to job-specific, industrial-type quenchants. I don't believe you will find a quench oil substitute that has a better profile than canola oil. So anything else is less right, regardless of ideal speed for specific steels.

A person can interupt the quench and be "more kind" to any steel speed that allows it.

Mike
 
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