What's on your bench?

[Kw trees]

No seat belt?! Shame on you

I live life on the wild side

 

[slackinoff]

I live life on the wild side

 

[dustinwilt68]

Little 034/036 conversion, still waiting on a few parts to arrive yet.

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Little 034/036 conversion, still waiting on a few parts to arrive yet.View attachment 324023 View attachment 324024

Is that ritt dye? On the covers.

 

[slackinoff]

My bench is empty. I am still trying to get everthing situated in our first house. Previous owner loved ski boats and the place has a three sided shop for two big ski boats. It's a long way from where I'd like it, but it's 100x better than my previous situation of a shop.

 

[dustinwilt68]

Is that ritt dye? On the covers.

Yes it is, been playing around with another of different color combos lately, just trying something different.

 

[Mkinslow]

Working on turning an old old Nicholson,USA MADE, mill bastard file into a knife for myself. As well as working on 4-5 others.

 

[RI Chevy]

Nice. What steel was used in those files? 1095?

 

[Lnk]

Working on turning an old old Nicholson,USA MADE, mill bastard file into a knife for myself. As well as working on 4-5 others. View attachment 324065View attachment 324066View attachment 324067

Will anealing that file make it usable as a knife? I always thought about trying to make a knife out of a file, I did make a draw knife out of one, but never annealed it.

 

[Woodslasher]

Working on turning an old old Nicholson,USA MADE, mill bastard file into a knife for myself. As well as working on 4-5 others. View attachment 324065View attachment 324066View attachment 324067

I’m sure you already know this, but files are brittle as hell and there’s a good chance you’ll snap it in half unless you anneal and retemper it.

 

[Duce]

So these 3657172 cases...
I don't see or measure any changes to the crank bearing pockets from 97 to 06 cases.
There is however a couple of extra gussets on the chainbrake wings both sides, and an absolute heap of extra reinforcement within the bar oil cavity for the bar pad.
May I present exhibits 1 thru 4....
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371 vs 372 cases.

 

[Mkinslow]

Nice. What steel was used in those files? 1095?

1095 and W2

 

[Mkinslow]

I’m sure you already know this, but files are brittle as hell and there’s a good chance you’ll snap it in half unless you anneal and retemper it.

Yes sir,already been annealed,being worked and will be heat treated again. Most files are no harder than 65-70 RC. You can actually temper then down to 58-60 give or take just by tempering for a few hours.

 

[Mkinslow]

Will anealing that file make it usable as a knife? I always thought about trying to make a knife out of a file, I did make a draw knife out of one, but never annealed it.

You can anneal them but you’ll have to treat and temper them again. If not they usually not hold a good edge or bend.

 

[RI Chevy]

Nice job on the file knife. Metallurgy is a cool science.

 

[Lnk]

Nice job on the file knife. Metallurgy is a cool science.

And way over my head. Glad others understand it better than I.

 

[Mkinslow]

And way over my head. Glad others understand it better than I.

I been at this for good 6-8 years and I still read stuff I didn’t know,

 

[drf256]

Just finished a hybrid.

 

[drf256]

 

[drf256]