Recent content by mikaloyd

In my first post I said that no sharpening jig was geometrically accurate. I was wrong . A sponsor to this forum now has one. The new black colored Sharpworx Professional Guidsed Freehand Sharpener had no geometric flaws in its theoretical accuracy andIm sorry that I said it did earlier. The...

Oh I like this!

Ivew found out more about the knife though and it was made just after WWII, So it almost certainly wasnt m,ade originallu with sufur despite what is in there now. Apparently you could buy these for 2 bucks at one time...

Nope Sulfur. the two tings it does have going for it are that it expands when it goes into a sold state after eing molten and that afte going from powdered yellow sulfur to molten devil sulfur it changes from wanting o react with everything to an anti social polynerized clot that has no...

You should be able to put a factory edge back on those in no time

I happened across an ad today from a sharpening business that Ive never used and am not endorsing or complaining about So i wont say their name here But I did like the ad Apparently much of their sharpening business is from shears and scissors used in salons barbershops pet grooming places...

I swear that every time I get used to a name there they change it. Welcome to Magic Moutain in sunny Newhal...erm Canyon co,,, I mean Santa Clarita! I blame La Tuna Canyo...erm I mean Sun Valley ;)

Its already getting parts from weird places Well my house and garage but weird that I have them here it has at l least one and possibly 3 heim joists from a Vietnam era army helicopter. One of the things Im counting on for accuracy that will go into a heim joint is a 7/11 aluminum slurpee straw...

Ive been thinking about doing it for awhile but sort of procrastinating due to ego I guess. Except for the similar filing jigs that many knifemakers (even some very good ones who dont lack a giant shop full of groovy power tools) use, I hadnt really wanted a sharpening jig. In some ways I took...

I can 100% approve of that!

Heck no! I go mad just trying to sort out some sort of understandable way o compare the various ways that knife industry suppliers schenes to name and number the abrasives they provide to us in ways that prevent any comparison or navigation through their products. If I was forced to try using...

To best predict the potential a piece of 1095 has to make a really flashy and awesone hamon you need to look at the steel's heat sheet and check how much manganese was in that batch of steel . Manganese is the mortal enemy of hamon formation in high carbon steels. So a batch of 1095 with more...

I have an elderly German knife hat has been in three pieces for about 15 years . It originally was assembled using sufur as a cement between the blade's rat tail tang and a hollow center in the metal handle. . I dont really want to cheat and use epoxy instead of sulfur.especially in this knife...

The first knife that I can remember ruining was one of my moms good table knives at thanks giving when I was about 5. Table knives , as i found out are far too soft to be good screwdrivers on stubborn screws. I think she was madder at me for pretending i did not know how that knife could have...

The bolster might still have retained its hardness. If so, and if you are a hunter you could turn the bolster into a sharpened gut hook and cut off the rest of the blade . Just kidding. Now is an oportunity to try things on this knife that would seen too risky on a knife that you love uined...