For anyone wondering, Joe's 1095 heat treat is fantastic and it honestly surprises me every time I use the knife (the Heavy Necker is also an awesome pocket fixed blade.)
Thanks Joe. When I was at school I made a long shank screwdriver out of mild steel. I was thinking of heating and quenching the tip, but the teacher said I could, but the tip would be brittle whereas if I heated the tip and allowed it to cool down naturally the tip would last longer.
that is interesting. i have not had very good luck with heat treats on mild steel. about the only 2 ways I know of to somewhat harden it is to cold work it, like to forge the tip of the screwdriver cold to work harden it slightly, or to case harden it by using case hardening powder and a torch or forge. how did your screwdriver work out?
with 440c I use the kiln for the heat, but still quench in canola oil. 440c is an air or oil hardening steel, and doesnt need such a fast trip to the oil as 1095. yes on a 1095 slipjoint, the spring will be 1095 also, just tempered softer to make a good spring
Makes sense, some knife companies do stay to lower hardness to keep the blades from chipping/breaking, your thoughts reminded me of the old Clint Eastwood movie warning: "a man's gotta know his limitations" changing it a little would be a man's gotta know his "Steel" limitations, I've run into a few lemons from notable production companies using the latest and greatest and they missed the mark, but some are just flukes in production, the 'Friday' afternoon whistle blowing everyone leaving scenario and a batch might miss a step. Keep up the good work Joe, the neck knife that I have from you cuts excellent btw !
Exactly my friend. The hardness and blade geometry needs to be suitable for the material being cut. What's suitable for food in the kitchen is different from cutting cardboard or ropes. I enjoy your video a lot
Joe, can you please make another Benchmade Osborne 940 update video🙏🏼 I remember about seven years ago, you made a video about having and using your Benchmade Osborne 940 for ten years. So by now, you must have owned that same Benchmade Osborne 940 for almost eighteen years, and I wonder how's it's still holding up🤔
@@joecalton1449 I just found a video of yours from 5/8/2024, in which you did a pocket dump for EricaEDC👍 In the video, you talked about how you made your own 940 blade out of 1095 high carbon steel😁
@@ThomasConnolly yep, that is actually the second blade i made for that 940. the first one was quite awhile ago out of 1095 and 15n20 random pattern damascus that I forged. and I made one for my other 940 in 440c stainless a couple of weeks ago.
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dovo makes good current production ones, for a practice razor its tough to beat the gold dollar razors, vintage razors can be good if you find a nice one. and there are a couple on my webiste that i make also. then a strop and paste from razor emporium
Hi Joe, Thanks a lot for this video. BTW, on the DMT website they mention router bits can be sharpened with some of their diamond sharpening tools, have you ever tried to sharpen the carbide inserts on the DiaSharp plate?
sure, diamonds will cut carbide, I have a circular saw sharpening thing I got from harbor freight that does an ok job on carbide toothed saws with diamonds. actual sharpening doesnt take all that long if the bit is just dull, its when the bit is damaged, or severely worn that takes a long time to be able to remove enough material to repair or reshape it.
With the lathe tooling it all depends on what you’re cutting. I run replaceable carbide inserts. When I was running exotic material such as mammoth molar and carbon fiber. HSS would dull out in seconds while I can run carbide for hours.
carbide has its place, and its almost magical what that stuff can do on the right materials. but for me it is not an everyday type of tool on what I cut on the lathe
Hey Joe have you heard benchmade is bringing out the original 940 with a magnacut blade instead of the s30v blade. They also changed the color of the aluminum to burnt copper looks pretty cool
I absolutely agree with you 💯 percent. BTW Joe I'm glad you quit smoking. Might be a good idea to go get that cough checked out . if I didn't care I wouldn't say anything.
thanks fellas. i have been getting allergies this last couple of years. and I talk more in one of these 10 minute videos than i do in a normal 2-3 days, and when I shoot mulitple videos in a day thats alot of talking and my cough acts up. sorry
those are $100 installed right now for 440c or 1095, which near as I can tell is the same benchmade charges. you can go to my website caltoncutlery.com and the contact page and drop me a line and get started if you like.
hi which of the grinders from Cabelas would you recommend for home use to just grind up whole chuck rolls and whole ribeye rolls / pork loin / boneless chicken etc and make sausages too ? I am thinking this one would be waaaaay overkill for me ( i do not hunt ) just wanna grind my own ground meat thx was a great video cheers from Vulcan Canada
Does steel type matter? Yes of course it does? Does it matter as much as people think it does? Probably not. Can the standard user tell the steels apart most likely no.
my thoughts exactly. heck i have a tough time telling them apart sometimes. about the only time I can really see an differences is in repeated tasks. like cutting up insulation to make a walk in meat cooler, or breaking down boxes for the woodstove. or straight up rope cutting contests.
If it matters to anybody installing sling studs on this shotgun, I guessed 3.5 inches from edge of the forearm. At first it seemed about an inch too far forward, visually and functionally. I got my hands on the all-terrain version of this same shotgun, which has sling studs factory installed. The front one measured 3.5 inches from forearm. Doesn't really matter, I think 2.5 inches would have been optimal, but CZ decided 3.5 inches is. Great shotgun!
@@joecalton1449 Indeed, you replied to my question about that a week or more ago, thanks again. I wish I could shake the OCD that makes me give a rats about placement of a sling stud . . .
I live half an hour from the Gulf of Mexico. It is humid as anything here all the time. D2 has never failed me, nor has it ever rusted on me. I agree that the newest super steel is fun, but not more useful to almost anyone than the tried-and-true steels. Blade geometry, heat treatment, use case, and then blade steel, in that order.
@@joecalton1449 I do try to keep it dry and not let sweat stay on it. I will put a light coat of Remington gun oil on it occasionally, maybe once every other month.
Almost all of my knives are in simple, old fashioned carbon steel. I can sharpen it quickly and I can get a fantastic edge on it. I'd like to try a few more of the modern supersteels, but I tend to buy the knife rather than buying the steel and I've never seen a supersteel knife I really wanted. I have a kitchen knife in Aogami number 2 but I don't think that counts.
Well, if you want to be as stealthy as possible and not wake the wife up in the middle of the night cutting the potato chips bag after eating some you'd better using a polished edge! 😅 On a more serious note, so far there doesn’t seem to be a major difference on how these quite different edges cut... Therefore, I wonder if the 6000 and the stropped/high polished edges are worth the extra work they need when sharpening... The 325 one may probably be the most practical one...
that is a great question, and one i cant answer for you completely. the 325 is my favorite all around edge and it is what is on most of my knives most of the time. occasionally ill run that 6000 grit edge, but the only time I ever go for a polished and stropped edge is on a razor that ill be shaving my face with.
jantz for misc stuff, pops for grinding belts, jantz and admiral for steel. local wood shops for most handle materials. amazon for sandpaper and other misc also.
Just did it now. Saved me. I had tried marine epoxy putty, various caulks, and was leaking many drops per minute. Found your video, shredded an ounce or so of soap up, and pressed it in. I left the object that had pierced the tank where it was, and just packed in around it. Moved the car, came back two hours later, and not one drop! Thank you, Joe Calton!
very cool! im not sure if you caught it in the video, but ive had those repairs last a couple of days, and had them last a couple of years. and no real rhyme or reason as to why. so id keep a close eye on it.
Wow Joe ! I didn’t know you like Slings and that you make them I need to by one I have 3 of them I have been shooting for 7 months I am newcomer to the sport Yep 👍 I have a catch box made of cardboard I will get one that is better I saw your website with some slings I will order one within the next month thanks for the video I am impressed!
Nice series Joe, thanks for sharing with us. Your mentioning about stropping on your palm reminded me of what Jerry Fisk said, he said he jokes with folks that his one hand is coarse grit and the other hand is fine grit ;-)
thanks for the kind words! i can see having two grits on hands. usually your dominant hand holds tools, and the non dominate hand holds the work. so your dominant hand should be cleaner and therefore a finer grit :}
Yes, great points. In another video, I heard you say something about 440 stainlness is not the funnest steel to sharpen. When I looked at my knives they are mostly 440 stainless. Maybe that's part of the reason I get so frustrated with my edges. I guess I should look into better steel. But it's all so mind boggling to me. PS: My main thing is I pack live stock in the woods. And my main concern is cutting ropes quick if a wreck situation occurs. But then my knives go through a lot of hard chores work too. Maybe I should have two, one for emergencies razor sharp and the other that can go a little dull for a while before sharpening.
my 440c is is easy to sharpen. it does take a little longer on natural stones like arks, but manmade waterstones like the king 1000/6000, norton crystolon, and diamonds work well. 440 stainless takes a little expalining. real 440c is a very good steel and can be heat treated to a pretty good range of hardness. mine is pretty hard, as in a file wont really cut it. i think some of the older buck knives were 440c at higher hardnesses before they started using softer steel. there were also 440a and 440b. and ive seen fairly low quality gas station class knives with the 440 mark on them. with softer stainless knives like the 440, 420 and unmarked types, the dificulty in sharpening them is not so much getting a stone to cut it, but the burr that they form can be tough to remove as it will bend back and forth at about the same speed that it forms. so with that class of steel, a good way to sharpen it is to do the plateu method, where you destress the edgge by cutting into the side of the stone enough so that you can see light reflect along the entire cutting edge, then take a couple of strokes on each side, reducing the amount of light that you can see reflected offf the edge and repeat untill you dont see light anymore. this method lets you bring the edge just to sharp, without creating a burr. it works very well, but requires some patience, and good eyesight or optics and stong light.
@@joecalton1449 Dang, that's good stuff. Thanks. I'll reread this a couple times next time I'm sharpening. I have been using quality Arkansas stones with oil. But maybe I'll one of the man made stones like you said. When I'm ready to drop a few hundred bucks I'll give you a ring. Thank you. Quality beats quantity over and over again it seems.
@@scottc3165 if you have a couple of minutes or hours, you can google 440 stainless and ill bet someone has all the facts on the differences between all the grades of 400 series stainless steels. i love arks, they are gorgeous stones, and leave a nice finish, and you can change the way they cut by how you surface them. but they are one of the slowest of the sharpening stones out there, right alongside the ceramices from what I have seen. it is really tough to beat the manmade crystolon, waterstones and diamonds for everyday sharpening.
Arkansas should be used when the knife is already sharp. It makes it even sharper. You cannot start with a dull knife with Arkansas, haha, only half joking ok. That's why they include an India stone with those Arkansas combination.
@@MeowCat-gm5vb Wow. I never knew that. I think they did include a course India stone with my kit. I'll have to look again. Obviously, I don't get to it as often as I should. Thanks f or the info.