dragoncutlery

auburn instruments has a plethra of pids

skip the lathe and just use a belt grinder to shape your wood jaws

snorri you have some reading to do

double sheard diamond steel has a nice ring to it

some foreign coils wont harden ether not sure the make i tosed all my coils after that not worth cutting them up just to have a blade not harden

ive had small tanks not hiss when cracked open unless hooked up some kind of saftie in the newer valves

yep i want one

i use hydrous borax or more my borax tends to be clumped together from the humidity and i break it up and use it any way

i dont see anything specific on his site and his contact link is down i should have an email around here some were but i might wait till hes back from adventure down under before i bend his ear on this i am curious now

dooooooood

my motor is open and right next to the contact wheel and lower than my platen which i use almost exclusively never had a problem also i am running a 1.5 which is fine for most things if i spent more time making knives i would upgrade to a 2 or even a 3 if i was doing a lot of stock removal haven't changed my belt speed in 14 years might save me some hand sanding if i did

i just saw a guy some were that escapes me right now who ended up in the hospital from a badly designed hood over his solid fuel forge prolly wouldn't be a bad idea to get the detector ether way you go

You dont flip/rotate till after the cut is welded up also might want more layers first

i just use a leather glove and heat gun i could never get the press to do what i wanted it to

hot air rises and he built the forge with the tank setting normal with a direct down flow burner and as it was a ventury it would suck the already burnt gases in and try and re-burn and that doesn't work so well