Troubleshooting and the effects of cruising on cognitive abilities.

Kevin R. Cashen said:
So we are already way beyond that part, sheesh TJ you need to follow the conversation better man!;)
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Yeah, we're into knife farming now.

Oh hell, since the secret is already out I might as well fill in a few of the details.

You can actually get several knives from one piece of steel. The steel is the seed. It's very important when you plant it and how you plant it. The best time is at midnight on a full moon. The way you plant it is by hammering it into the ground with a magic hammer. You have to water it with beer every day. Beer from a green bottle works best. Then the knife bush sprouts after about a month, and eventually, after several months, starts to form these weird looking little flower buds that look like sheaths, or hairy little vaginas. The knives grow out of the buds. It's also important to know exactly when to pick them,... too soon and the blades are hard and brittle, too late and they get soft and mushy. You need to go out to the bush with a file and test them everyday until they are just right, and always pick them with an enchanted pair of blacksmith tongs.

I hope this helps.

At least it explains why it takes me so long...
 
WTF.......where's my conuflator pin

I'm just gonna go back to edgepacking my blades, and quenching them
facing magnetic north
 
God Keven reading your posts is like trying to listening to one of George Bush's speeches.
I fall asleep.
Hey keep up the line of thought that way I don't have to. Now where in hell do you buy one of them Mortor cycle things.
Take Care
TJ
 
The more I read threads like this and talk about them in the shop, the more the engineers give me nicer and cleaner jobs!!!!
 
Tai, I was reading your post on the full process for knife farming and when I got to the part about the buds looking like "hairy little vaginas" I just fell off the goddamn couch laughing! Thank you! I needed that.

-Gavin
 
This looks like a big thread, but I'm NOT READING ANYTHING PAST THE FIRST POST until I answer.

Answer is- I don't know. Not a single clue. What I'd *DO* is adjust my marquench temperature, down. If it works, great, if not, then I'll play around with it, down and up, until I figure out what the results of that are. Then I'd ask Kevin.

But I'm having a hard time with the question, because the reason I'd lower the temp is a feeling gained from experience with metal, which means metalurgy. Even if I'm completely off base since I don't do what Kevin is describing. I really can't approach this form, say, and organic chemistry basis. Yknow?
 
And I'm completely wrong. which figures. But I would have tried raising and lowering both.

So, I AM curious, Kevin- sometimes you throw stuff out that I'm unaware of - like brass rod testing for hardness (?!?!?!?) that's apparently, if erroneously, done.

So- without necessarily naming names, WHY does rockwell supposedly not matter and hardness testing is some sort of conspiracy?
 
TJ Smith said:
Could you repeat the question?
TJ
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There is actually a series of questions. Kevin answered the first one himself,… so I assumed that it wasn‘t the question... How foolish of me.

1. “Why is martempering so successful with my normal steels yet failing on this new one?”

2. “Can one find the same answers without all this horribly misleading, evil and soulless metallurgy?”

3. “But I am curious what answers can be gleaned without the use of any metallurgy at all.”

4. “So I am incredibly curious to see how things can be done in other ways that do not include it.”

Some of the punctuations, (uses of question marks and periods), and wordings are kind of confusing. English can be very frustrating to me. I wasn't sure what to do about this one, "Some could wonder what my point is or the relevancy?"

I hope this post isn’t too anti-scientific. :D
 
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