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I read the title as "cut off short lengths" LOL, We talking "Bob Wier short" or "below the knee" here? :D Sorry, interuption over now... JP

Thanks Craig! I dont use oil because its a water hardening steel but i havent tried heating the pan. Im going to be building a heat treatment oven and will be adding a normaliztion round after the initial grind. Like you have discovered the heating releases the stresses and eliminates the...

Im going to skip the details of the next few steps since they have been covered in earlier post, so if you need info on differential hardening or on the tempering cycles look back a page or 3 and it should fill in the gaps. I choose to continue with the differential hardening for the...

Thanks again for the compliments on the woodwork. I look forward to each batch because whats learned from the previous only stands to make the next higher quality and more efficient. Aggie, I decided just to leave the "bookmatched" board as is. I agree that straightening the seems would be...

Thanks man, I appreciate the compliment...Its not totally fair though...Working with these wood selections is kinda like a Photographer that only shoots the Sierra Nevadas...Just frame up the shot and mother nature does the rest...everytime... Yup, Titebond III Ultimate Wood Glue Titebond...

I would like to add the additional info for the redneck high temo thermometer... Slap a welding magnet on something close by and keep touching the part to it duting the heating... when it stops reaction with the magnet you have reach "non magnetic" or 1450 degrees and you can be certain you got...

Now this last board became a person adventure...I found this crazy figured poplar at Lowes of all places...their poplar is usually plain jane and has zero color but these were nice! So i paid my $12 and had a vison... I cut the two boards and glued them in what I thought would yeild me a...

Now the butcher blocks... Im not sure if you guys saw Aggierailroads post in the last woodworking update about making patterns seperatly, and then building the boards in one direction instead of trying to center it from four... I had absolutly the wrong understanding of what that post meant...

Got an update that is almost totally Wood related tonight... This is the largest single order so far ,and I have to admitt that the extra clamps and a rather !MASSIVE! change in the buthcherblock process made it possible in a little over a weeks time of evenings and a couple shop days. The...

These last three post are a look back to last year, so start at post 51 to get started down memory lane from the beginning... So today I started fitting the cleaned panel covers to new backing boards. This took way longer than I thought it would, but turned out decent. At the local home...

So…. This week (a year ago) was a decent week for the progression of the Cherokee… The parts hunt yielded great results at a time when my schedule is still flexible and based on holiday availability. I managed to track down: Headliner trim pieces that I was missing – they are in good shape but...

Im going to get the drivers cab corner replacement started tomorrow night so I will have an update for you reguarding any snags hopefully by sunday... Untill then...I was looking back thorugh the original thread form the IFSJA.org and go ta chuckle from a couple of these post from about a year...

Impressive... I second the pine wood comment from earlier... You have done admiralbly with it to say the least, but your price point could go up a $1,000 if you used walnut, Bubinga, Ambrosia maple, or some other exotic. It would add around $70 to the build cost but repays you big time... You...

:thumbup: nice work! JP

Thanks man! Dont be shy, post up pics of your projects when you do them jp

that's not beat to hell, its just dings up from me trying to draw that blade down and gets more noticeable when the face gets really hot , like when you forge weld for 15 min.... One good round of forging out one of those rasp into a knife blank will flatten it right back out. I usually use the...

Here is where you have to stop and figure it out...you draw your shape on the blank and look at where there is metal where there shouldnt be??? Here I have a decent amount in front of my cutting edge and on the upper edge as well. The steel in front of the cutting edge is to thin too pack into...

This is a continuation of the Battle Axe build fom the previous post. If you missed it jump back a bit to see how this got to where it is... Aggie and Nastyzen I appreciate it. The power/air hammer is on the list but its a ways down at this point. My mentor has one buried in a storge unit. He...

Thanks, I have the Novack website commited to memory at this point. :o I will look into the t-18/19...another FSJ'r just finished doing that switch behind the 360...I might go over and drive it to see what its like. JP

Beginners luck... :thumbup: Looks pretty sweet... JP