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- Canterbury knife (was Osmund knife) - Show and Tell - Bladesmiths . . .
It's made it waterproof using a goop recipe recommended to me (beeswax boiled lineseed oil gum turpentine) I happened to already have those ingredients It has quite a potent smell It didn't change the appearance of the leather or the carvings, unlike an earlier test soaking leather in wax Making sheaths is fun
- Quench Tank Ideas - Hot Work - Bladesmiths Forum Board
You do not want to quench the handle tangs, so an edge quench in the goop with the handle tangs hanging down might work IF you use a steel that hardens well in goop, which limits you to an alloy slow quench steel like 5160 or O-1
- Quenched with Rutlands asking advice - Bladesmiths Forum Board
The goop helped me from spilling transmission fluid and or other oils all over the place but that's as far as it goes I'll get a better edge quench without it I will re-do this piece, normalizing it 3X, and I will try the clay again in water I'll move through the sanding process with progressive grits as outlined
- Recommendations for minimising decarb - Bladesmiths Forum Board
I want to harden some small things with a lot of surface detail Probably made from W2 Can you guess what I'm thinking of? I guess that avoiding decarb would be greated challenge to keeping the surface detail hard? I have some of that grey goop you paint on before austenising to protect against
- Cutlers resin - Fit and Finish - Bladesmiths Forum Board
If you get a good goop in the inside, it will never come off Apparently they had glue like that in the Bronze age It can get wet, but if you let it soak, it will come apart The Japanese use it for various sword parts (gluing on the kurikata and kojiri, sometimes also gluing on the fuchi and kashira) The Japanese call it nikawa
- Traditional Hatori Polishing Tips - Bladesmiths Forum Board
Speaking from experience, you're not going to get a traditional polish with modern abrasives There's just something about tojiru goop, and fingerstones that does things that nothing else will My theory is that modern abrasives are too uniform and too hard to break down properly Also, don't forget to make or buy decent nugui Dry iron oxide artist pigments make a reasonable substitute If
- Bluing Blackening of steel - Fit and Finish - Bladesmiths Forum Board
Watch on He talks about "bluing salts" at some point, perhaps in another video I don't remember Anyone able to explain the ingredients of this "goop"? Sincerely, Alveprins
- Osmund knife - Show and Tell - Bladesmiths Forum Board
It's made it waterproof using a goop recipe recommended to me (beeswax boiled lineseed oil gum turpentine) I happened to already have those ingredients It has quite a potent smell It didn't change the appearance of the leather or the carvings, unlike an earlier test soaking leather in wax Making sheaths is fun
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