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Welcome - glad you decided to get back into blades. Your knowledge will be appreciated by many here.

That is going to be a sweet BK9.
 
pollock9131 said:
Thanks for all the kind words and warm welcome guys!!!



I do though they are nothing fancy. I wouldn't mind posting them at all but since I use to sell them I don't want to violate any forum rules by doing so. Being new I haven't learned the ropes yet on what's allowed and the last thing I want to do is cause any problems or get myself in trouble.
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Just post some pictures. Don't include details that would be necessary for a sale. If you do get offers, get a membership that allows you to sell.

My advice is contact Esav Benjamin. He's a super moderator and one I've corresponded with for years, very friendly guy, and he'll make sure you're on the straight and narrow. Otherwise, you can ask another moderator or Spark, the forum owner.

Welcome back, glad you're back into the hobby, and hope you feel better and can recover/accept the new normal.

Zero
 
Zero_Time said:
Just post some pictures. Don't include details that would be necessary for a sale. If you do get offers, get a membership that allows you to sell.

My advice is contact Esav Benjamin. He's a super moderator and one I've corresponded with for years, very friendly guy, and he'll make sure you're on the straight and narrow. Otherwise, you can ask another moderator or Spark, the forum owner.

Welcome back, glad you're back into the hobby, and hope you feel better and can recover/accept the new normal.

Zero
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Thanks! How does a person contact a moderator here? I looked some earlier for a way to do so but didn't find anything.
 
pollock9131 said:
Thanks! How does a person contact a moderator here? I looked some earlier for a way to do so but didn't find anything.
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Go into the general knife discussion (the one you posted this topic in). Scroll down. At the bottom, it tells you who the moderators are for the forum- and you'll see the name Esav Benyamin in silver. Click that, and you'll go to the profile screen, where you can send him a message.

I see you messaged him already. Great job! I look forward to seeing your past works!

Zero
 
Zero_Time said:
Go into the general knife discussion (the one you posted this topic in). Scroll down. At the bottom, it tells you who the moderators are for the forum- and you'll see the name Esav Benyamin in silver. Click that, and you'll go to the profile screen, where you can send him a message.

I see you messaged him already. Great job! I look forward to seeing your past works!

Zero
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Thanks! Yeah I finally figured it out. All my photos are on my old computer that crashed, I got the computer fixed but it's not hooked up. I need to transfer all those files to this other computer anyway so I'll do that as soon as I can and post some photos. I also need to get a flash drive to back those files up on! :thumbup:
 
Here is a link to a slide show of some of my knives from one of my YouTube channels if anyone would like to take a look until I can get to the photos. Sorry the video quality is extremely poor, I think it was my first YT video and I think I recorded it off my computer screen.
[video=youtube;6e2SeoNIP8g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e2SeoNIP8g[/video]
 
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Cool stuff! What steel(s) did you use? How did you put your name on the knives? How hard did you harden them?

Zero
 
Zero_Time said:
Cool stuff! What steel(s) did you use? How did you put your name on the knives? How hard did you harden them?

Zero
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Thanks! Mostly 1095 or 5160. With an etch-o-matic etching machine. With an Evenheat digital heat treating oven and usually did differential hardening, so hardness varied from edge to spine. Usually 58-60 HRC at the edge and around 50 HRC at the spine best I can remember.

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Unfortunately my accident that caused the narcolepsy also left me with memory issues and at times concentration problems so sorry I can't be more specific. Pretty sure those numbers are close though.
 
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pollock9131 said:
Thanks! Mostly 1095 or 5160. With an etch-o-matic etching machine. With an Evenheat digital heat treating oven and usually did differential hardening, so hardness varied from edge to spine. Usually 58-60 HRC at the edge and around 50 HRC at the spine.
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How did you differentially heat treat them?

Zero
 
pollock9131 said:
Quenched by placing the edge only in the oil up to a certain depth and leaving the spine un-quenched so it remains soft. Makes an extremely tough knife when done properly.
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Huh. You would put the knife in the oil before or after the oven, and you'd leave the oil on in the oven? I haven't had a chance to make my own knives in an "updated" fashion; I've played a little with old school blacksmithing without long heat treats and dials and such.

Zero
 
Zero_Time said:
Huh. You would put the knife in the oil before or after the oven, and you'd leave the oil on in the oven? I haven't had a chance to make my own knives in an "updated" fashion; I've played a little with old school blacksmithing without long heat treats and dials and such.

Zero
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"Quenching" is placing steel in quenching oil "after" being brought up to the hardening temperature for the particular steel. The oil is never in the oven, it's in the quench tank.

Should be plenty of YouTube videos on differential heat treating.
 
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