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T Taz 1980 F austenetize for 30 minute soak plate quench, cryo. Tempered at 300 F 2hx2.

I used the knife for a year straight and felt the fine edge held up better than Magnacut at 63 Rc, which I carried for the year previous.

I have made hundreds of knives out of Cruwear at 60 Rc but now feel that the steel really hits a sweet spot at around 62 Rc for my uses.
 
Thanks for the info! I had a few BRK's in CruWear and liked them, so that is why I went with 60 for the first batch, but was curious at other peoples experience!
 
This one was customer designed and I made it in 80CRV2 with Black Canyon Richlite scales. His sheath carving design also. Since he designed it I have his permission to call it Radu's Wharncliffe, kinda rolls off the tongue. That sloping rear of the tang is super comfortable.23-31 2.jpg23-31 3.jpg23-31 4.jpg
 
52100 from Koyo ball bearing .This one would be for a butcher who loves wild boar hunting :)

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Ordered a little 4” diameter rotary table for liners, not sure if I will have room for both set up at the same time but will give it a try.
Worst case scenario, the little benchtop drill press will be sent to drill press heaven and a mini mill will take it’s spot (it’s not like I would need all the tooling again).IMG_5808.jpeg
 
This will be first time I will name a knife , I will call it *defiant* :)
It was quenched three times, the first time in brine, the second time in oil and the third time again in brine. And each time it bent on same place , two inches from the end. Triple quench 🤣 Black one , one bottom on picture . I will straighten that part after I cut tang and then I can clean it on surface grinder. I'm curious what the structure will be like inside. All knives /52100/ in the picture have undergone the same treatment , normalization and everything that follows and HT and tempering . Maybe I will measure the hardness if I notice a difference in the structure.

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It works, and I was able to drill holes on the vise to the left and then mill to the right of it leaving everything in place.
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The only thing I can imagine getting in my way would be using the flycutter to flatten scales.
 
Imgur isnt working right now so i had to use flcker.

Anyway some stuff recently.


Finished a 250x59mm gyuto in 4v, 66.8 hrc.

Started an m2 gyuto, a cruforge-v gyuto, and got a giant piece of m4 in and cut out 3 240mm gyutos from that.

I also got some more 10v in, and tomorrow ill be getting some s90v.

So when i have all 3 I'm going to go ahead and run the heat treat coupons for all 3 steels. Get the heat treatments worked out at the same time for the things I'm going for with all 3 steels. Then i can do the heat treat for the actual knives a few days later when i get that worked out.
 
This old lady and me are getting to know eachother. It has to go her way but then she gives me what I want.
I had to put in a new motor and took the opportunity to give her a bit more power and went from 250W to 550W (1/3hp to ~3/4hp)
German machines, everything is standardized, the new motor bolted exactly in to the 50yo holes! How cool is that!

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And I was having so much fun that I decided to cut a nail pull on both sides of this blade!
No I didn't, I was so exited that I didn't pay good attention, but I actualy think a dubble nail pull gives it a bit of an I-beam look and I'm keeping this one for myself, so it's OK.

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