Take a look at the temper on these

Nice all around. The cocobolo sets it up great but I'm kind of partial to dark woods anyway. Keep them comming.

Larry
 
blgoode said:
DAng! I said an 8" blade not an 18" ;) Thats a wicked machetti. I like the handle on it. Do you still have it?
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:D nope that one sold about 3 years ago. :D

Mark that would chop through a 5" soft wood in 5 swipes
 
B., I really like those! Stress? you mean makers get STRESSED? You mean, like, REALLY STRESSED? I thought I am the only one that got STRESSED while making knives. Sometimes it's pretty relaxing making, too. Especially when the little woman is having one of her "NOT GOOD" days, it's pretty comforting to be able to retreat to the shop and lock myself in. And I ain't coming out 'till she's in a better mood! Dang Cherokees!
 
Hey...You figured it out for me!!! I am part Cherokee so thats where my flying fits of rage comes from ;)

It is enjoyable but if you let your guard down one little bit mistakes happen ;(

So I get very intense at tmes but its still fun and very satisfying.....
 
Spaghetti. In another post a few days ago Ed Fowler had answered my question how to "read" the etch of a blade. My concern is always that I'm overheating my steel; Ed said one way to tell it's been overheated is that the pattern will look like spaghetti. Since the hardened areas of my blades looked quite uniform I took that as a good sign. But the fact is, I don't know jack what I'm looking for so something that would be too subtle for me to see might scream "Dumba$$!" to an experienced heat treater. But they hold an edge through several feet of hard cardboard and don't chip over the brass rod so I'll take that as a good sign. The more I do this though, the more I become interested in better performance. All this leads me to believe I need good temp control when heat treating; I need to get that salt pot built! All that's left to find is the appropriate thermocouple and to have my pot made... Sorry for getting so longwinded, I'm waiting for my frozen pizza for the second time. I need something to keep my mind off it.

A while ago I preheated the oven, set the timer and wandered off. After watching the timer count too slowly for way too long, it finally went off. I opened the oven and - no pizza! Cripes, I'd forgotten to put the stupid pizza in the oven. So now I'm waiting for the timer to go off again... :rolleyes:
 
Congradulations Bloogode: You know know more about the nature of your heat treat., Those who etch their blades can read what many can only guess at. I have to warn you, the more you see, the more you will want to see and the quest is endless.
 
Thanks for the confidence in my progress guys. Ed- you are too right in that the quest can overcome the product at times. I am fortunate to be learning on knives that now are belonging to customers that will use these which is what I want. Fitzo mentioned the "cloud: formations I have gotten in several blades. Time will tell but there is a damn fine line between a nice "cloudy" grain pattern and a somewhat spaghettish patern. I hope to learn ,Like Dave, to keep the spaghetti to a minimum.

Protactical - There are a number of makers who are getting a temper line in 0-1. It depends on how you are heat treating. That has everything (I think) to do with the results in 0-1. Maybe someone will speak up that knows a little more about it. What steel and methods of HT are you using?
 
I've always heard you can't get a good quench line in O1 too but it's just not true. In fact, you can see the transition even without etching, but the etch really does bring it out. Give it a try!
 
sure you can :) the hard part is to get a patterned transition line on O1
the make up of O1 is designed to even it's heat in the quench.
for lack of better word for it. it's why it's so easy to H/T


hey I've been up since 5:00 :D
 
Got you beat by 45 min Dave ;) I get up to drive an hour to work so I can get on the road and get in the shop :D :D . Back to the 0-1 topic.....

You may have a hard time getting that transition to show if you are heating the whole blade. How are you heating the blades Protactical?
 
from what i have read and played with 01 can have a nice transition/temper line, but it will be a straight or almost straight line, not wavy like the 10xx series hamon/transition lines.
 
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