where do I get 1050 steel?

time,,,?
well, thats another story...

You see it's like this. In the Wally Hayes VIDEO , that is my only guide, He shows how to make a 4 foot long coal forge outside,,,and how to make a 4 foot long quench tank,,,"outside"

well, thats fine for Wally in the summer, but here is -20 outside...bad enough to try to keep the fire going in the windchill, but how would I ever get the water warm enough?

My answer to the "warm water" problem came when I used a huge cow stock tank and filled it up with water inside my shop..

The next problem was building a fire in the 4foot long forge...The wind here in North Dakota is a real proble,,,,we dont have trees here to break the wind and slow it down.

I had to build my forge a safe distance from the shop...so it was a 20 foot dash to get in the door with the hot blade...then another 15 feet across the shop floor to the stock tank...

I ran as fast as i could,,,but Im not a kid anymore...

This new idea of a pipe quench tank is an answer to my biggest problem...
 
---rant on


DaQo'tah


I have to say you perplex me.

Why is the Wally Hayes video your only source of info? You're looking at BF, so obviously you have access to every bit of internet info the rest of us do.

Internet info from the likes of Don Fogg, Howard Clark, Randal Graham, Kevin Cashen, Jimmy Fikes... all at your fingertips.

No books in the Dakotas? You've got access to amazon.com same as the rest.

35 feet from forge to quench tank?!?!? Are you kidding?!?!?

Your problem is you watched a video and you're trying to copy what you saw without understanding the actual process.

You need to understand what's going on and why.

You can disagree with me if you want, but this is the case or you wouldn't do something like put your quench tank 35 feet from your heat-source.

I'm sure this could all seem rude.... but it's unbelievably frustrating to me when someone asks questions without actually listening and trying to process the answers they get. Why even ask the question in the first place?

Paint by numbers doesn't work very well in bladesmithing.


rant off---
 
perhaps I should have said,,,"The Wally Hayes Video tape is the only video tape I have"

I have printed out a ton of advice I have received form Blade Forum members over the last two months,,,,

But I dont know of any katana makers near where I live..I have joined a japanese KENDO class in order to be around more guys who actually own katanas....

I was luck to meet a older gentelmen in my Kendo class that has a few real Japanese smith made katanas that are part of his family history going back a long long time...But I didnt ask to take the swords apart to see how they were made...

I have also emailed a bunch of bladesmiths on BF as they can tell you,,,and have received lots and lots of answers to my many questions...

all this is fine,,,,but the truth is, that the only sword I have actually seen made is in the Haye's video,,,

Just like the only knife I have ever seen made is in the Ed Fowler video too....
 
DaQo'tah Forge said:
all this is fine,,,,but the truth is, that the only sword I have actually seen made is in the Haye's video,,,

Just like the only knife I have ever seen made is in the Ed Fowler video too....
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I Beg to differ with you DaQo'Tah, you have seen two swords made, the one in the video and the one you made that did not crack :D Keep on pluggin away, you are forging ahead faster than I am!

Matt Matlock
 
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