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Completely normal for HT..D2 can be a very good steel but it has massive ammounts of RA that has to be dealt with in HT..If you use the industry standard HT for D2 you can end up with 20% RA..Thats were the crappy edge comes from..The ndustry standard HT is for punch/press dies in large...

Good job, you send them to Peters?(just curious but I don't know if your in the states or not)

Walrus, mastodon ivory,mastadon teeth etc and Ive seen a lot of really cool homemade "micarta's"..I like irish bog oak too.

Hi guy, just curious can anyone identify these characters? Not my knife but trying to find out for someone...Thanks for your time.

Hi guys, Im looking at a couple masamoto knives..The KK series..Does anyone have any comments on the fit/finish,heat treat, etc? Also opinions on their larger Deba's(like 195mm)? Thanks

Beautiful..That knife really speaks to me for some reason..:biggrin:

Guys check out youtube for his "forging a Nakiri"..he mentions the marks he puts on there but I can remember what else he said.

I know its his "Mitsuboshi" mark but I cant tell you the significance..Sorry

If Im using dia sharp plates I go to EEF, my highest waterstone right now is a 6K..I sold my 8K Kitayama and am regretting it.

Not as many folks around here scrape anymore..Most have started skinning instead since they don't cure..We still scrape, for traditions sake if nothing else..It gives the young boys something to do and an experience they wont soon forget :doublethumbsup:

Its either a Nakiri in AEB-L or a long thin meat slicer in Blue #2

We still butcher our own..Its a family affair..We all gather up,scrap,clean and butcher..My wife works her butt off rendering lard and cooking fresh pork for us over whats left of the scalding fire..I wont hijack your thread but Id like to post a couple pics..My dad in the first one..that knife...

If you are using sandpaper something I like to use with it is a Granite surface plate..I already had a surface plate for other shop work but they are heavy, very flat and inexpensive..They also work well for the "scary sharp" method that I use to use on chisels and plane irons..Of course if you...

I wont speak as to vendor issues but I can speak from knife making exp and plenty of exp with san mai construction..That crack could have always been there BUT it could have very well been a microscopic crack that was not visible to the naked eye at all..If that was the case it would/could have...

Not all differentially heat treated knives hamon will be visible.(at that many steels can be differentially heat treated but will still not throw ahamon because they are too deep hardening) It takes a certain level of polish and even then if its power buffed it can be completely washed out.At...

That's a good point. You see I live in a very rural area. The closest "switch" is about 2 miles away.

A lot of it has to due with the given steel too..Some steels have finer edge stability than others..Grind an .005 edge from 1095 and one from cpm3v at about 61rc and it will fast become clear which one holds a more stable edge at that hardness. Of course 3v isn't really a good example as you...

They use X50CrMo14 I their knives or did use a lot of it. 56rc maybe 57 is about the best you will get with a X50CrMo14 Wusthoff. Its the way they design them to be..Softer, easier to sharpen and roll instead of chipping. I have one myself that was given as a gift. We use it all the time and...

Yea, if I paid for the service I acutally get they would owe me every month..What the engineers tell me is that bellsouth oversold the bandwidth for our areas "box" as they call it. So in simple terms you have 100 people trying to use 50 "people worth of bandwidth"..

We live in a very rural area and have bellsouth. DSL, advertised speed is 3mbps. On the very best of days it will hit about 1.25mbps..Many days it will drop all the way down too 0.35mbps..Yes, 0.35 with an upload speed of about 0.04..A great deal of my wifes business comes from the net so it...