Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Heat tempered & treated. Need to sand off all the black stuff & assemble the handle. After that I gotta make sheath. Debating to used carbon fiber.

What did you settle on for hardness? Did you just quench with vegetable oil?

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

What did you settle on for hardness? Did you just quench with vegetable oil?

Yup, went w canola oil. Hardness, if this graph is correct, we did Rockwell hardness of 57~58.

[p1l0t]

Tempering temperatures are tempering.

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[soundman98]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Heat tempering... doing outside wasn’t a good idea. Today outside was 93 plus forge heat made me sweat like crazy!

it was somewhere near that hot here as well today. the official temp was 86. but it was 88% humidity..

i worked outside on the garage. i couldn't take looking at the crappy door falling apart any more. it required cutting the new door down, widening the opening, and resupporting the main door header.. so about 6-8 hours of work.. the only fun part was that i got to break out the air nailers.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by soundman98

it was somewhere near that hot here as well today. the official temp was 86. but it was 88% humidity..

Yeah I know that feel. Here, you feel like you’re in the oven. Quench oil got up to 120 degree without heating it up... which was nice, so I didn’t have to heat it up, but it showed that it was THAT hot under the sun.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Yeah I know that feel. Here, you feel like you’re in the oven. Quench oil got up to 120 degree without heating it up... which was nice, so I didn’t have to heat it up, but it showed that it was THAT hot under the sun.

There is a reason I buy tons of popsicles for the shop guys. They are on their own for the baby powder though.

57-58 should hold a nice edge and not be too difficult to sharpen.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by soundman98

i worked outside on the garage. i couldn't take looking at the crappy door falling apart any more.

Welp, ya got the hard part done. A 4'x8' sheet of exterior plywood, couple of barn door hinges, a latch - slap that puppy up there and splash a little paint on it - and you will be done -

Yep, I'd suggest you get right on that, before the fire marshal drives by and gets a look inside of your garage -

[humfrz]

WOW! My lucky day.

Look what I got to invited to - and it's FREE -

[JD001]

Originally Posted by humfrz

WOW! My lucky day.

Look what I got to invited to - and it's FREE -

You "tart".. what about your grocery store squeezes?? Just thrown away like grocery packaging after a good Covid-19 clean down...

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by JD001

You "tart".. what about your grocery store squeezes?? Just thrown away like grocery packaging after a good Covid-19 clean down...

Well, they are OK for weekly squeezes, but I was keeping my eye out for like a 3 day weekend type squeeze -

[JD001]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Well, they are OK for weekly squeezes, but I was keeping my eye out for like a 3 day weekend type squeeze -

Oh, okay... Only 3 days??

[JD001]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Heat tempering... doing outside wasn’t a good idea. Today outside was 93 plus forge heat made me sweat like crazy!

I watched a really nice documentary on the BBC about a Japanese swordmaster family.. it was very sweet, capturing the spiritual nature of sword making.. worth a watch if you can find it...

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by JD001

Oh, okay... Only 3 days??

Well, ya, at my age, I can just take so much Viagra -

[bcj]

4 days ...

call the coroner.