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Sometimes ya just gotta take the bull by the horns! If you folks would like, I could start an "argument" thread on heat treating 5160....and I bet that one would get very lively! __________________ WWW.CAFFREYKNIVES.NET Caffreyknives@gmail.com "Every CHOICE has a CONSEQUENCE, and all your CONSEQUENCES are a result of your CHOICES." |
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I'll join!
I do it two different ways! And both ways work. I'll bet I'm the only guy around who uses what he has learned from both Ed Fowler and Kevin Cashen!! Those two guys can never see eye to eye, and use two entirely different methods of heat treating steel, yet I went and did Ed's "Seminar of the High Performance Blade" and have twice been to the Ashokan "New England Bladesmith's Guild" Seminar to study with Cashen, as well as VOLUMES of emails to both of them! After about three years I put together my own "recipe" for 5160 based on what two completely different guys live by. When I did my performance test with Don Hanson III, I took a knife that was virtually indestructable, shaved hair after MUCH abuse, could NOT be flexed by human means alone, yet still not even crack when I had to use a 4 foot cheater bar and LAY on the bar to get it to bend. When I got done, Don posted on Blade Forums that he "had a whole new respect for 5160!" __________________ Blade Show Table 8-Q What do you do when you see your ex in pain, limping and bleeding? Relax. Take a deep breath. Reload and then shoot again. http://www.andersenforge.com/ |
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Bravo Karl!!
Bravo Karl!! Oh the "lowly" 5160,, what magic lays beneath it's surface!! (I'll bet you get some personal messages wanting to know "your" indestructible method too!) I'm lov'in it!!---Jon
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