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Don Hanson III

Don Hanson III

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Kyle is knocking em out lately. This one turn out pretty good. :cool:

W2 at 62 Rc, Smokin Hamon, Fossil Mustard & Green Canvas Micarta.







 
Got to see this one today. Awesome piece. Love Kyle's use of the micarta. Nice feel in hand. I think it went to a lucky owner this evening. :thumbup:

- Joe
 
that knife is fun!
 
Surely taking after the old man, when you going to let him loose on some of the fossil ivory you hording up?!
Rob
 
I like it. I was making one inspired by these, because they are simple and elegant, and fun to make. But, I made an itty bitty mistake in the placement of a pin hole (I didn't use a spotting drill first and I was careless and let my bit walk out of the center-punch dimple). On something that small, under the metal bolster I was going to pin, it was a fatal flaw. No use finishing a half-assed knife.

All that is to say, I appreciate the, "nowhere to hide," aspect of the knives.

good work.
 
You guys know W2 heat treating back to front and upside down , I'm still working on it using some of your figures so thank for putting the info out there . The question I have is how can you know this blade is exactly 62 RC , or close there a bouts, when you can't Rockwell test an edge on an edge quenched or clay deferentially treated blade ? Have you done smaller samples and tested them and use the same heat treat formula that you know produces the goods , or do you have some way to test this actually edge that is more accurately than test files. I'm using test pieces my self.
 
PARKERKNIVES said:
You guys know W2 heat treating back to front and upside down , I'm still working on it using some of your figures so thank for putting the info out there . The question I have is how can you know this blade is exactly 62 RC , or close there a bouts, when you can't Rockwell test an edge on an edge quenched or clay deferentially treated blade ? Have you done smaller samples and tested them and use the same heat treat formula that you know produces the goods , or do you have some way to test this actually edge that is more accurately than test files. I'm using test pieces my self.
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Good question about the Rc hardness. We only test flat parallel surfaces & test pieces. We use the same heat treat recipe for this W2 and this W2 is Very consistent. Many sample pieces done and I check all folder blades at the tang. Rc hardness will vary no more than a half a point. Thanks.
 
Thanks Don , that's what I thought you would be doing. That's pretty much what I have been doing to get it right.
Cheers Adam.
 
Have I missed something? How can one go about doing an hamon like this on a knife? (I have a hard time seeing me accomplishing that with mustard etching?)
 
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