Tip for the Day

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tom mayo

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well...you guys are probably a lot smarter than me and dont have this problem...but i keep my steel in three seperate corners of my shop...ats in one, bg42 in another, and the cpms in another...440 and 420. problem is....once i start grinding on them..they all end up on my bench in a pile...and then i get severely distracted and dont work on them for a month or two or three...and there i have it....16 knives in a pile out of 3 or 4 different steels....so i am going to start marking them with steel stencils..the kind you hit with a 8 lb hammer...in the middle of the handle....today i sent a batch to paul bos...and about half of them said...bg42..i hope....hahaha. started them in aug and just finished them today...well. thats my tip for the day...hope you like it.

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Good idea Tom!! I need to start marking my steel even before I grind it into knives. I have some that I'm not sure what it is. Guess I'll just use it for templates and such. Take care! Michael

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"Always think of your fellow knife makers as partners in the search for the perfect blade, not as people trying to compete with you and your work!"

 
As Tom mentioned, it is easy to know what the steel is before you grind but during and afterwards is another story.

What I do is to use my dremel tool and grind or etch with a small "ball" end "engraver on the tang what the steel is before ever grinding the blade. This seems to work OK for me.

C Wilkins
 
Tom,
What corner do you keep the Talonite in?
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Since I only work with 2 steels and now Talonite, it realy isn't that bad. I can tell D2 from A2 by touching it to the grinder. The Talonite is so expensive I don't think it will lay around long enough to GET mixed up! If it did, it would be the metal that the magnet wouldn't stick to
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Neil

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you can just dimple them with a drill bit-make up a code and write it down-1 dimple for bg-42, 2 dimples for cpm440v, 3 in a triangle for 420V, etc.

Marking them is a good idea-with the stamps, your heat treater can identify them, too, if he takes the time to read them.

RJ Martin
 
yeah...idid that one....one hole for bg42, two for 44oc....problem is that so much time went by i forgot which code went to which steel....guess i will have to write it down. gee whiz life sure is confusing sometimes....

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