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Well right now I cna't get into any more hobbys lol, costs to much on ym part time job... Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for answering all my questions on knifemaking! Sean best cut metal the work, a

Sean, Make up a few and show people what you can do. That's the best sales tool. You can use the stock removal method and only have to cut metal away. Then find somebody to heat treat and temper them

yes that I heard was also referred to as watered steel, but the concept is awesome and must take forever~! I bet you charge and arm and a leg for thatif you ever make them... Maybe when I am older and

Sean, Damascus steel, is bars of steel are forged together, much folding of the metal goes on during the process. You must flux with something that contains borax, or you can use the stuff at from

wow sounds cool, damascus how exactly do you make that, is it just a really high carbon steel? Somewher eI heard of watered steel or something along those lines, not sure if it was real or no.

Sean, The only thing I don't do is mine and refine the steel/iron. I have several heat treat ovens, have a working knowledge of heat treating and tempering. My big sellers are hunting and fishing

Now you do all that hardening and quenching and thigns yourself? Do you make knives liek hunting knives or more tactical type things? just curious, I am to poor to invent in knife making.. Sean

Sean, I am not going to say that anybody famous has one of my knives, but a few firefighters do carry them as crash knives. I spend 50 to 70 percent of my time making knives. The rest is for other

Thanks for replying Jerry, yeh knifemaking always intrested me, though it was cool same with blacksmith. Do you jsut make knifes for yourself or do you custom make them and people order or ask which

Sean, I come from a different background, I am a knifemaker and a blacksmith. I use a 2 x 72 belt grinder, which is common in the knife trade. Which I built both of the ones I have. I just got my

I chose this one manly for price, but I have some thigns in mind. I been reading alot of the pages that people make and am amazed at the stuff they design and build!! I actaully was planning on doing

Let's put it this way... you did not make a "bad" choice. All of the 7x series lathes are capable of the same work. Some just have more included features, but most of those can be added later if

Well tonight I order one fo the homier type Lathes (7x12) off of Ebay for $299 since I am to poor to afford anything better, I barely scrounged up enough. lol its my only christmas present and I had

Good Afternoon, Bob: The taper is smaller toward the headstock. The lathe is not bolted down, but is sitting on a 1 1/2" workbench that is level. Am wondering if bolting the bed down will correct this

Good Afternoon, Bob: The taper is smaller toward the headstock. The lathe is not bolted down, but is sitting on a 1 1/2" workbench that is level. Am wondering if bolting the bed down will correct this

It's all about the center hole: "T" means it's countersunk, "M" means it's not. Graciously, Jim Lakewood, CA All Hail Rube Goldberg! Smurf707 wrote: --

for spare parts i ring the machine mart parts line, pay by switch and take delivery via post. always had good service and plenty of help DAVID WILLIAMS BOLTON ENGLAND davidalan@... l

Nick, which way is it tapered, small end to the headstock or tailstock? If your lathe is bolted down that can twist the bed and swpping parts will not help. Try loosening the bolts holding down the

Good Morning: Finally received the new HS assembly from Homier, and carefully swapped out the internals from the original. After installing the "new" hs, and squaring it to the bed, I reinstalled the

Yeh I have been checking out that www.mini-lathe.com page , very imformative. I am on a budget so I probably will stick with the homier, they have exact sma eones on ebay with only $50 for shipping! I