Mark, if anything the cryo treated tools should be less brittle. Cryo treatment eliminates retained austenite (we want something called martensite in our tools) which is brittle. Retained austenite...
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Mark, if anything the cryo treated tools should be less brittle. Cryo treatment eliminates retained austenite (we want something called martensite in our tools) which is brittle. Retained austenite...
When I make tools and grind a lot in a day with CBN wheels I get those dust ignitions often. If there is a layer of steel dust built up on the table, the high carbon or more plain steels burn slowly,...
If you are resawing at decent amounts, get a Kataba. You will inevitably use the rip side of a ryoba more if you are into resawing by hand and will sharpen the rip side more; the saw wears unevenly...
hammered a chisel into a space beside my right shin bone.
I have the Shapton 30k. Got it for very cheap from a kind woodworker years ago. It rarely gets used, I prefer ending on a sigma 13k for synthetic water stones, a Jnat, or a nice oilstone. If you are...
That Norton stone flattener does the opposite of its job description. It cuts fast, and will take off your pencil grid and any marks on your water stones every time leaving the illusion that your...
I got my set a few years back, and the three biggest chisels had similar issues (coincidentally also in white oak is when I found out). Talked to LV and three replacements were sent and return...
Stewie; perhaps Moria would've been more apt a description. Certainly some mithril; good info to be found here - along with plenty of... Orc-ish-ness.
I'm far too lazy to go back and click around...
Thanks Keith, very nice.
Nice looking chisels! can you post pics of the backside, hollows etc?
This was detailed in another thread; but with files. Rasps are harder to dull and achieve smooth faces with all the pointy teeth; files are easily dulled with a bit of sand paper on a flat surface....
those squares and heads are great. I love my 24inch one.
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Well the brand still exists. I wouldn't pay that much for them I think. It...
Lol, I should've been more clear. Blue tape, that'll be a classic line if it isn't already. I meant those magnetic boards of wood that people use to store their kitchen knives. So I was genuinely...
For me clickbait is much more an issue in general content. ALL CAPS AND FLASHY DRAMATIC TITLES AND EDITED TO ALLURE THUMBNAILS IN EVERY YOUTUBE VIDEO. Just too loud for me, and rarely does the...
Darn, thought this thread was going to be Derek making a magnetic knife wall thing. Still a possibility?
Just nit picking; some errors perhaps from Fahrenheit - Celsius mixup here. A Stanley chisel tempered at 600 Celsius, 1112 Fahrenheit, the steel would basically have a sub critical anneal at this...
Go ahead and flatten. It's not something I would really worry about for stones coarser than 2 micron abrasive sizing. It's more an issue (imho) with natural stones. I flattened my 13000 sigma and...
Well I'll be darned. Looks like shellac gets feisty after a few years. Turns out a detailed thread on this is on this forum too. Looks like google really is all mighty.
I was in my room in bed on my laptop when I hear a crackling sound. I thought it was something electric at first, then I heard a rather loud bang, and something lightweight hit the carpet. I get up...
Warren, I suspect the availability of precision ground A2 and it's very appealing behaviour in HT is quite appealing. There are knife makers who order small rectangular precision ground blanks by the...
Thanks Brian!
There are good Damascus manufacturers, along with san mai type construction. A single layer weld should be pretty cheap for those guys. Perhaps the west does have avenues in terms of...
Brian, this is very interesting and something that is in line with my interests. I remember a short discussion on Insta where Oliver Sparks the plane maker mentioned to someone that a British company...
I dunno about missing, but there are other tools. Or other variations/configurations of the BD smoothers. The cap iron wars on this forum are stuff of legend.
Yes the carbon diffuses. No it is not even near equally diffused in a Japanese chisel. On some of my very first kannas I decided to do a few heats at forge welding or near forge welding temps and...