Recent content by comet_sharp

You're most likely subconsciously twisting your wrist at the end of your passes. Just practice more and don't get discouraged. -Trey

Sandblasting/or peening the inside of a warp or bow with a small hammer like a tack hammer is also a good way to straighten monosteel once you learn. By peening and stretching the steel on the warped side youll force the steel to lay back straight. Can leave peen marks that neeed to be ground...

So true, ive broke a few. Getting them to straighten under 375°F is hard is they are hardened properly. Id heat around 380/400 with a shim/jig or 3point and torch. -Trey

Aebl is good stuff, so are its Sandvik cousins If you find it chippy work on your HT, Eh, thats all opinion. I'll take shiro 1 over AS any day of the week. I'll also take aebl over cpm154 though as it sharpens better and is tougher. -Trey

As said before the biggest difference is price. There is no difference in the steel except most honyaki are austentized from lower temperatures than laminated knives (except Sanjo, they use low aust temps for everything ❤) which if anything makes them TOUGHER. San mai will bend, honyaki will...

Water quench in sections over a quarter inch thick. All those simple hitachi steels can be oil quenched with fast enough oil and proper control of grain size and austentizing soak time and temperature. There are oils now rated to hit the pearlite nose within the same window as water then slow...

That really does look like an elongated honesuki but I think its neat. Grinds and all look nice, great score.:thumbsup: -Trey

Looks like a scotch brite or trizact belt finish or scotch brite wheel buffer finish.

Smells like you're pushing teeth and fingernails into a ceramic belt 😂😂. They burn very easy.

I recently used one of the rolls from this distributor. Good stuff. -Trey

Ive always had best luck with normalizing, decending thermals amd first quench. I also only do 52100 in medium speed oil, fairly safe quench 😊

I have 1 from them. Shipping took a few months but it came. -Trey

I used a Gihei 240 blue 2 for a while. Comes out of handle thick but distal tapers to the 2.3-2.5mm range and holds till tip. Heat treatment is fantastic, grind took multiple sessions to flatten/thin/even out. Great project knife for the price given youre willing to put in the work and enjoy...

I feel if your edge is biting into the belts the youre grinding at the wrong angle and might want to consider a jig of some sort or more practice. Just my .02$ maybe a bubble jig until you learn to feel where the steel is being removed? -Trey

Yes you grind edge up while looking down at your work i wear eye/ear protection and a respirator, the steel usually isnt the cause for concern but the airborne abrasive is. Id also suggest a denim/leather apron. I rarely wear an apron but I'm dumb