I forged some two knives at the same time. I'm calling them the twins and put my brand on them. They're out of 4069 (if I'm remembering the type correctly I'm bad at memory.
Also, THANK YOU everyone who gave me tips on how to get rid of fish lips. You're all golden for that!
Hello.
I went to the Georgia ren fair Saturday, and when I was there my friend (who was plastered mind you) asked both myself and a fellow blacksmith who was selling wares there a question that we both found odd, but now I can't stop thinking about it.
The question was: "If you can quench metal with water and oil with differing results, then what happens if you quench a blade using Red or White Wine?"
It has been two days and now I am tempted to go to the store and buy a box of red wine and get to smithing to test this out. I am wondering if anyone has an idea of what may happen, OR if they have already tried this to share their findings please.
I will be sharing own my personal findings over the weekend when I am paid and have done this experiment.
Hey so me and a friend are talking about whetstones that are used to shape and place the cutting edge on a blade. And he keeps saying that 400grit is a fine grit that is used to clean the edge, and the black stone that feels like rough granite you would use for a crucible that is supposed to be used for flattening misshapen stones down is what your supposed to use before honing your edge.
I think he's dead wrong and he's using his stones incorrectly.
Settle this argument please.
P.S. For clarification. the stones he has range from a rough 400 grit stone that I have personally used and has gotten rid of chips in an edge of a knife before, all the way up to 8,000 grit white stones that feel like I'm gliding my hands against near polished marble.
I personally feel like he is mistaking the roughness of the black stone to behave like how a belt sander of the same roughness will behave.
Hey so uh. I'm someone who is learning how to make blades while using as little modern tools as possible. (Meaning little to no machines during the whole process.) From of 1/2" by 2" steel blocks.
I'm at the point where I can form the blade and it looks good... Until I'm trying to make the tip and it REFUSES to fuse together and makes a split no matter what I try to do. For the past 8 blades I've made it's turned out like this, and I always break apart and keep the broken pieces every time it happens.
My question is. Does anyone know how to make the tip behave? This is honestly frustrating me.