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Half on each cheek?

Wow, those must've been some expensive sheets! Any idea what they were intended for?

If you want to learn more about the trade, videos online are a great resource. Check out Tom's Techniques, That Lazy Machinist, and Tubalcain. As for recommendations on the actual material, zkling will know better than me, but I'd think a nice tool steel for the blade. Just grind rather than cut...

Carbon is what makes it possible to harden steel, but high carbon steels (.6-1.5%) aren't necessarily hardened, it takes heat and quenching to harden steel. Tempering softens the steel slightly after hardening and is used to make the hardened steel less brittle and "tougher". Annealing is the...

For a knife you'd typically want a bit of a higher carbon steel I believe, something that you can harden without making overly brittle (or a nice stainless), but if you want something easily machinable you're usually looking at a carbon content under about 30% or the addition of some soft...

See if it can open a twist-off bottle-cap! If it can that'd be a sweet bottle-opener! :P

Tom's Techniques

Haha nice! I actually meant to ask how it was to machine. [emoji14] Oops.

Ooo, fun. :P How was it to weld?

Haha I like that you have to justify things now ever since the Paint Vs. Stain controversy! :P Good score on that maple, man. That'll look great! Gotta love getting to go through your work place's old stuff.

At the end of the day, we have oil. It'll always bounce back. I plan on trying to get away fr oil and gas. Hoping to find a job at the University's machine shop.

The low price of oil has my shop down to an 8hr/day 4-day week, luckily I'm In school anyways. Can't afford to work that little when I'm done though, so I'll be looking for a new job. Glad to hear the new Redwater plant is pushing forward! My friends and I have a yearly "Boys Only" camping...

Nice haul, man! Love CT sales. Good old rain in winter, hey? I'm actually having a beer at my buddy's in the Fort right now.

Magneto, I'm no welder, but that looks like a pretty nice bead to me! You could probably improve by just getting a bit more of the mill-scale off the material before welding. Good for you on going straight to a quality brand machine and a gas setup. Too many guys think "Oh, a Mastercraft...

This makes me tingly in my special spots. I see you already made your decision on these, and it sounds like a wise one. As much as I love these old map cabinets, there are definitely different qualities and conditions. If they were sturdy and half-decent shape I'd fully agree with the guys who...

Will do, bud! Already subscribed.

$450 for that whole setup??? I would buy it in a heartbeat!!

Thanks Denwood! It sure seems to be helping! She had her first day at a new Farmer's Market (The Strathcona Market off Whyte Ave. in Edmonton) yesterday, it's a really established and busy market here, and she sold 9 collars! For her first time there and the fact that it's right after X-mas...

I made it to the end! I've been wanting to read the whole way through this thread for a while now, and I finally got a chance. Awesome work! What kind of ETA are you looking at for getting those aluminum heads from TA? How long after will you be track-testing the car before the book goes into...

Might be a cool idea, I have some old Gray and SO sockets and wrenches... You're not getting my Beach boxes or Beaver drill press. [emoji14] We could just do it that we all post up the stuff we have but don't need or our want lists and whoever asks for something pays for the shipping.