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  1. 18 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    This is what it looks like, minus some surface rust from sitting around in a shop for nearly a year. It still needs to be sanded down to the final finish and heat treated before I start on making the handle. Gonna have to figure out how to cast some silver parts to do it proper, but there is a method I found that doesn't require any special equipment. I probably wont get to it for quite some time because I have to much other stuff and other projects going on right now.

    nice. after you sand that down to what you like, heat to 1475 or so and quench. it should be hard.

     

    good luck on the hidden tang. i recommend a whitetail base horn. that would be cool. something like this cut down and drilled out.

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  2. 11 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    EN 45 is also known as AISI/SAE 9255.  That might assist with finding some HT info.

    from what i can see.. this is a simple HT. 1475 and quench. similar steels with about .6 carbon are the same.

     

  3. 16 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    It's a hand forged blade from Crazy Crow Trading Post I'm making into a Searles style bowie. I posted back up a ways. Had to flat file all the forging marks out and stuff. Sounds like it probably isn't treated.

    now start at the top and start sanding... when you get to the bottom it should be slick..

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  4. 21 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    What do you know about EN 45? I have blade made of it that I have filed down and all that, but I don't know if it has been heat treated. I suspect it hasn't, but in my searches before I couldn't find much about heat treating it.

    sorry i didnt see your response.

     

    not sure specifically about  en 45,  but a google says it is a spring steel.. high carbon. common stuff.. but good. i have made a bunch of stuff out of leaf springs and mower blades.

    the place i buy steel from doesnt have en45  listed. when you say filed down i assume you mean it has a bevel?

    take a file, flat bastard will work... scrape it across the edge, if it grabs, it isnt heat treated. if it just scates across then it is. you can always get it to 1475 or so and let it air dry slow. that will soften it back up.

    after that, sand the shit out of it to whatever slickness you want.

    i like spring steels, they are easy to treat and will get sharp easy. bad part is they rust pretty bad especially if you try to etch or gun blue them. 

  5. 25 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    What kind of steel are they and how hard was the heat treat to do?

    the one with red/black is cpm154, the damascus is 1095 and 15n20, the rest are aeb-l stainless.

    the stainless and cpm are a little in depth. have to normalize then wrap in stainless foil. then get up to about 2000 and do plate quench in aluminum. have also done cryo quench with the aeb in dry ice and acetone. all the aeb tested to around 60rockwell after temper which is pretty good. 

    the 1095/15n20 is easy. one step 1475 then straight to oil.. . then an etch in ferric chloride. that shit rusts and i wont do any more. 

    i have tried all kinds of different steels and will probably use aeb-l, 440c and cpm 154(when i can get it) only from now on.

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  6. 15 hours ago, mulletpelini said:

    I didn't realize poors that stay at Day's Inns had such high standards.

    South Wichita, late 80's.  Never would have gone to this place but my best friends brother (drug dealer) said there was gonna be a great band playing there that night.  It was the darkest, tony dungyiest, place I've ever been.  Part of the design were painted body outlines on the floor.  Couldn't figure out if it started with a few legit ones and then they said fuck it and painted in the rest.  He wasn't lying though, as the band that night was indeed good.  Halfway thru the set the lead singer grabbed a chainsaw from behind the drum kit and proceeded to cut his wooden stool up into a 10 smaller pieces.  Some of you may realize who I'm talking about.

    Jesse James Dupree?

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  7. 17 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

    87 Ice Box in Fredericksburg, TX on Washington Ave.   Absolute lovely little dump.   

     

    Every bar in Malone, TX

    most every bar in Mingus, TX 

     

    Bleacher’s Sports Bar in Garland/Richardson    Used to go there when I was 18 after our softball games when I was playing on my uncle’s team    

     

    Learned how to play moon at the 87 ice box. Lessons there are not cheap

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