Normalize when stockremoving ?

Sounds like good advice!

I think I'll take it!

Now I just gotta get that clip point back for long enough to photo it. Shouldn't be too hard, I gave it to my father. If anyone I know can appreciate a good using knife it's him!
 
Dan, I was amazed (and humbled) at how far you'd managed to improve in one year's time (Ashokan to Ashokan, if you follow me...).

Your forging skills are leaps and bounds better than mine, and any of the stuff I saw coming from you would be stuff I'd be proud to carry. We may be our own worst critics, but to not sell our stuff and die of starvation will hardly allow us to increase our proficiency, no?
Sell your knives for reasonable prices and take care of the folks that buy them -- in every case I've encountered so far, they've sent me more work and every knife I've made has been better than the last!

Hope things DO manage to get better for you, btw...
 
Dan you are on the path for sure! Good luck! If you are ever my way be sure to stop in at my shop for a welding lesson or two:D. I agree with you totally, building your own equipment is both SATISFYING and rewarding, plus when anything goes worng with it you know either:

A) what is wrong
and
B)how to easily and cheaply fix it
 
OMG!!!

I am beside myself! Thank you for the kind words gentlemen!

Matt, things aren't as bad as all that. I manage to get the bills paid, somehow, but there's just not any room for extra nowadays. That's what I get for being in Real Estate!

Sam, I don't often travel through NY state, but I may just look you up for those welding lessons, not to mention some hammer time!

Thank you all, very very much.
 
Yeah my Mom is a real estate agent, and it sucks lately i know how it is Dan. Yeah feel free to stop in ANYTIME you are through my state, hopefully the shop will be up and running soon, with my new 20 ton hydraulic press:D MWUAHHAHAHAHA!
 
it was used in the gates and railings shop i have moved my shop into, and my boss and the new owner does not use it, so he said i can do whatever i want with it, not sell it or anything but use it for whatever i need it for. I haven't had the time to mess about with it yet, so ram speed and all that i don;t know. It is BIG, Green, greasy, and needs a new set of dies. it's 3 phase which the shop also has. As soon as i get it up and running and working right i'lllet yah know some specifics. I also have a 60,000 pound hydraulic press as well in the same space, i need to organise everything good and proper and then i might consider a bit of a mini hammer in.
 
Sam Salvati said:
it was used in the gates and railings shop i have moved my shop into, and my boss and the new owner does not use it, so he said i can do whatever i want with it, not sell it or anything but use it for whatever i need it for. I haven't had the time to mess about with it yet, so ram speed and all that i don;t know. It is BIG, Green, greasy, and needs a new set of dies. it's 3 phase which the shop also has. As soon as i get it up and running and working right i'lllet yah know some specifics. I also have a 60,000 pound hydraulic press as well in the same space, i need to organise everything good and proper and then i might consider a bit of a mini hammer in.
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Sam, please let me know when you're going to have a HI. Wouldn't mind a few pointers on forging from you, either. :)
I am real close to you. Yulan's off Rt. 97 a bit.
 
Okay, so we've hijacked the snot out of this thread, for sure!

BACK ON TOPIC!!!

I bought a bunch of 1095 a while ago that I specifically requested be hot rolled, P&O annealed... should that necessarily be in any better shape that the usual, "run-of-the-mill "(sorry, couldn't help it!) 1095 that didn't undergo this process? Granted, annealing and normalizing are not the same process, but I'd like to think that the carbides would be better distributed throughout after such a process, no?
 
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