Fastcamo what kind of knife is that?

Just one I made, another Dog and I was going to have a "chop off" for fun and we had to stay in a 20" max limit

Nice work <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

DANG... that is a "Brute".

I still don't know much about SRS60. For that matter, I have never heard of "mar" quenching either. (??????) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

I thought I was starting to get edgamecated around here. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

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Thanks Bruce. Cool and interesting stuff. Mar-Quenching info on pg. 18-19.

I tend to not spend "too" much effort trying to become highly knowledgable about heat-treating, quenching and so-forth. But, I like to have just enough understanding to ... er ... understand... some.

If or when I ever get to the point where I try to make my own knife, I would most likely not even attempt to heat-treat. I would send any knife I would make to a "Professional" to get professional results and quality.

I can appreciate that some people might want the full experience of making a knife from bar stock. But, to me, if I am not making the bar stock either, so I wouldn't feel like I made everything from the ground up anyway. I wouldn't feel I needed to do the heat-treat and wouldn't need that part of the experience. I would rather have a HIGH quality heat-treat and feel the blade was treated as well as reasonably possible by a professional, then mess up a blade I spent a lot of time on. I have seen people spend MANY hours on a blade and then crack it or not get the most out of a certain type of steel by not doing the heat treat correctly, then their blade breaks, chips or similar after all their efforts.

To become a "Professional" at heat-treating, you really need a LOT of training and experience IMO. LOTS of different steel types = LOTS of different techniques.

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Yep heat treating the the magic of it all, I have all my stainless done by Bos, and 95% of the rest by Norm in Idaho, he has over 40 years experience in this field, professional is the only way to go.

very interesting post knife guy. i always enjoy your posts. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Cool. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Good to see you back.

Been wondering what happened to you. Military busy-ness have you for a while there?

This recon seed? Ya change your name and avatar?

yep its me... people on here have been calling me SEED and there is a new comer called RECON i think so i just thought i would make it simpler for all. my bad. and YES active duty military is busy!!!! thats why i havent been trolling like normal. LOL