Grand Torino

Graham makes some amazing knives. I don't care for the chisel point blades but the quality is 100%. Enjoy your new knife. :up:

If you are going with this one only not in a tanto blade I'm in......if it's the runt I'll pass. I'd rather have a different blade shape....like a drop point....Let me know ;)

Welcome aboard :up:

I have questions. When will we receive the name and is the deadline on Christmas or is is it sooner?

I just mowed today.....well more like raked (mulched) the leaves up so they will hopefully blow away. :P  I might do it one more time.

That's a beautiful knife....great choice on the scales. Congratulations. :up:

Welcome aboard. :up:

Right purdy knife....but it's a bit too small of a blade for me. Good luck with the sale though. :up:

Sadly I agree. I mean I'm happy that the Obozo lover's were defeated and all but I'm not enthusiastic about the prospects that anything will significantly change for the  better. Republicans have been in charge before and they just pissed it away......just sayin'.

Good thing I'm a prepper. :lol:

RIP young man.

Welcome aboard. :up:

Nailed it. :up:

He's like a broke clock.....

Stay on their asses.........any company worth it's salt would make this right in a  heartbeat......just sayin'.

Sorry about the bike.......nothing worse than a damn thief......well not many things anyway.

I'm not saying it was or wasn't hardened or tempered properly. I was just asking how you knew if it was. If it sharpened easily it's a good bet something wasn't quite right. You can test the hardness with a file. Lightly run a file over it. On the blade section it will have a glassy and smooth feel and sound. Compare this to how it sounds on the tang section that hasn't been hardened. There will be a difference. If they sound the same you should repeat the hardening process. Bring it back up to temp and quench it again!   1084 or 1095 are good carbon steels for knife making. They work quite well when annealed and if heat treated and tempered properly provide a good finished edge that holds it's edge well and is able to be resharpened by the user.   If you use files make sure you use old Nickolson files that were made in the USA. Don't buy new ones...they are mostly case hardened and are not suitable for knife making. Some of the older saw blades can make a good blade. You don't really know what kind of steel it is but if you follow your heat treating/tempering processes you can end up with a fine blade.    I actually cut a couple of pieces off some saw blades and sent them  to my heat treater and he identified what steel they were and if they could be heat treated.

You did a wonderful job. It looks great.....especially for your first knife. Do you know what kind of steel it is and did you heat treat it and temper it? Congratulations on your first knife. :up:

Well ain't that right purdy? Congrats :up:

And they would be gone in 5 minutes and everyone would deny eating them. :lol:

That's very subjective...different stokes for different folks so to speak. These are very popular but there are many more.   http://www.crossbreedholsters.com/   http://aliengearholsters.com/holsters/alien-gear-products/alien-gear-cloak-tuck-2-0-iwb-holster-inside-the-waistband.html/   http://www.comp-tac.com/product_info.php?products_id=61   http://raven-concealment-systems1.mybigcommerce.com/phantom-modular-holster/

Funny thing....I did the same thing today. :)

The poor guy should have been home in 3 days if we had anyone in Washington the knew what the hell they were doing. Idiots....every damn one of them.

Good luck. The only time I ever lost a deer was with an arrow. We had 6 people knowledgeable in tracking and never did find the damn thing. It was the last time I went bow hunting. :(