Recent content by aarongough

Looks nice! Definitely worth the price! Bit of autosol to clean up the rust and I'm sure it will serve you for years!

I haven't used Turco personally as it's not available over here... If there's something better then that sounds like the way to go!

That's an amazing little kiln! With the enclosed elements I doubt you're likely to have problems, but I'd still be cautious. If the anti-scale works properly then you likely won't need the charcoal. I've heat-treated O1 in my kiln using anti-scale many times. The anti-scale usually blew off...

Hey mate! Decarburization is definitely a concern when heat-treating. I use 309 stainless foil and anti-scale compound to keep oxygen from the blade. There is a compound available in the UK called 'Turco' which functions well as an anti-scale. The foil is necessary for tool steels like A2 that...

Beautiful looking tool! I love the dovetailed base. I have never thought of peening the metal into a dovetail like that, something I will have to remember!

I will say that I'm very curious about what that Veritas PM steel actually is. They never give the 'real' name of the steel, instead they have their branded name. Seems like a nice steel though!

Looks amazing! Love the dovetailed brass and steel, as well as the dark wood (looks like ebony or maybe ironwood?) I'm an Aussie mate, living in Canada. I guess you could say I'm an ex-brit :D

Can't say I've ever seen an infill plane before, the photos I just got after a quick Google look beautiful! I don't have any plans to make plane irons just yet. A2 plane irons are definitely available, can't say I've seen any in the high end powder steels though! I'm sure a plane iron made from...

No worries on that front! One of the nice thing about knifemaking is that the skills involved are also applicable to many other hand tools. Making chisels and plane irons for instance would mainly be a case of design changes, the metallurgy side of it is pretty much 100% overlapping with...

Thanks mate! It's very hard to even consider keeping up with demand because I'm still working on the knives part-time whenever I'm not at my day job. I'm looking at ways to move toward making it more of my overall work in the future though. My main concern is that I don't want making things to...

Sounds like a good place!

No worries! I always love chatting with other people that make things, whatever they may be!

Funny story about that machine! I ended up selling it to a woodworker as I was looking to upgrade to a small CNC mill. However the money got absorbed by other things in my shop like the grinder... They guy I sold the CNC to ended up becoming a friend as I helped him learn the basics of CNC and...

Haha, yes sir! :) There were 2 main belts you saw in the video. The first was the one I used for profiling the blank and that was a 36 grit Norton Blaze belt, the second was the one I used while doing the bevels and that was a 60 Grit blaze belt. The belts aren't that expensive (at least over...

I figured it was something along those lines, it's been a while since I signed up for a new forum!