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Slow and steady... knee pads... immaculate posture... out think the process, just like you do solving knife making problems. Push comes to shove, it takes you way longer than you would like but you come out of it done and not crippled, it's a better road. Mike

Truth of it is, "the helper" hussles the sticks and the hammerer stays bent at the waist and nails, and nails and nails and nails. Doing it alone is tougher even if it seems like getting a break from "the position" would be good... as you said, way too much up and down. Bruce, if I was...

It's no wonder you are sore, Bruce... you were doing it wrong. Not supposed to get up and down, you are supposed to do the whole job bent over 90 degrees at the waist.... =] Mike

OK, Bruce... it will be a little while... I don't move very fast. Mike

Well I've got a bucket of valve springs from being just behind a local car dealership on a dump run. Was going to mess with forging them until I looked into modern valve spring metallurgy. Some of them came off of trucks, I think, and have innner and outter springs and maybe both are useful. I'm...

Josh, that is the idea of the tool I thought was here on Bruce's forum... using a plate between the screws and the guard. Bruce, what do you see your tool doing that this one doesn't? Mike

Well, I'd guess it was mine, not yours... saw it somewhere else and just think It was at your place... Mike

Am I wrong, Bruce... you don't have a modified soldering fixture you use for whatever I thought I saw a picture of somewhere in your forum? Mike

Seeing as this has been brought up... how did you go about getting the carbide on the Finnigan file guard, Bruce? Mike Edit: Never mind... I found the answer in posts on this page... http://knifedogs.com/showthread.php?t=5603&page=8

Yes, similar to that but different... and I still can't find it here in Bruce's forum, but then, I'm terrible at finding lost things. Mike

Nope, not that, Mark, but thanks. I was going to look through Bruce's forum for it again tonight but I didn't get home until nearly midnight and it's way to late to start. What I remember is a smallish brass oval with a slot to stick a hidden tang through... screws to hold the tang and...

Holy smokes!!! Not what I was thinking of as "foundry", but what a neat place. Mike

Thank you for posting that picture, Bruce. I've been looking around your forum for the other tool... I know I've seen it but haven't found it again. I think it was like a tool "Uncle Al" sells, but modified by you. Had a brass piece with a slot and screws running in a couple of directions. I...

Missed this first time through... would you say what the name of the local foundry is, please? Mike

You were busy... =] And there's a tool you use, made of brass I think, clamps on a tang with screws and has screws to push on the back of a guard. What is it used for? Mike

Bruce, Do you have some pictures of the tool you use to press guards into place? Mike

Thanks, Bruce... Mike

Bruce, The Finnigan file guard you use, did it come with the carbide surfaces? Mike

Thank you for that, Kevin... Mike

No, not really... I haven't read the diagram right and I'm sorry... not 150F but 100F for O1 @ 99% martensite. The two references I have show W1 of 0.95% C and 1.14% C at 0F and 100F for 100% martensite, respectively. That seems odd to me given the austenitizing temps were both the same (5F...