Wow that's too bad looks like you had the beginnings of a nice chefs knife.
Homer's Legal 4-Plant Max Perpetual Minimalist Garden In Ontario
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LOLOL! I have no idea what the problem is. Your knife sir, will not keeeill.
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Actually, I didn't really like how the texturing turned out on the non-bevel part of the blade so I really pushed this one to see what I could get away with not really minding that much if I broke it so now I have a better idea where the limit is. So no big loss but it's pretty rare I don't get one to the end these days.
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Fear not sir; only the most discerning eye could catch the flaw, LOL. Is that you Doug Marcaida?
It's on right now... I watch it whenever I can hoping one day I will see you on there. You could be the first Canadian you know.
Looks like you simply need a shorter handle...I do like you are making handmade knives Homer.Last week while trying out a new straightening method at the end of heat treating during the tempering stage my knife developed a minor flaw. It may not be evident to the untrained eye but being a consummate professional I won't be finishing it because of my high standards.
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Why didn't I think of that, lol...
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Actually, I could not be on the show because I don't forge. I do what is called stock removal where I start out with flat stock and remove what is not needed with cutting and grinding and then heat treat in an electric heat treat oven. I would like to get into forging but my elbow and wrist are pretty worn out and I don't think the neighbors would appreciate all the banging. Maybe I could go on and fake it, lol.
I didn't know of that method
So you buy like a 5160 bar and work from that correct? That's pretty cool. So then how do you harden the steel without a forge? Oxy-acetylene?
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Pretty much but you don't see 5160 knives very often because it only has about .63% carbon so it only gets to around 58 Rockwell hardness. Apparently it is used on things like big swords and such because it's a tough steel. Lately I have been using a lot of 1095 carbon steel which has .95% carbon so it can get up to quench hardnesses of 65 Rockwell.I didn't know of that method
So you buy like a 5160 bar and work from that correct? That's pretty cool. So then how do you harden the steel without a forge? Oxy-acetylene?
I actually started out hardening my own knives with a natural gas oven I piped into the natural gas line in my garage. I made it while I was working at Ontario Hydro on the sly and then I tried to sneak it out in a big gym bag and the thing was so heavy it snapped the shoulder harness. So I had to carry it to the car like a briefcase pretending it wasn't heavy, it just about killed me, LOL. It was pretty hilarious.
But since then I bought an electric heat treating oven that looks like a pottery kiln basically. It's 220 V so it heats up pretty quick and apparently can go up to 2300°F but simple carbon steels don't even need 1500°F and most stainless's are about 1950°F. Only steels with lots of tungsten and cobalt get much over 2000°F and you don't really need that for knives because you're not dealing with high temperatures in use.
A lot of people use acetylene torches starting out but that's a pretty haphazard way to harden. 50 or 100°F off makes a big difference in hardness so my system is actually more accurate than what you see on forged in fire. The more carbon and alloys the more critical the temperature. I also have a hardness tester so I can do zero right in and know within 10 or 20° where to be for each steel.
Here is the thing I made at Ontario Hydro. I looked and looked but I can't find a picture of the electric one I have.
LOLOL! Nothing to see here, just me and my bag.
Kinda what I thought too re oxy. Very uneven as well so the treat would be hit and miss throughout.
Well done Macgyver. Looks perfect and easily hideable in a gym bag.
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I both loved and hated my job but one thing I loved about it was in industry and construction rules were pretty loose especially in the old days and we got away with so much outrageous hilarious stuff it was quite the adventure. So many funny stories I would hear at work about the crazy things people did on and off the job.
I hate to toot my own horn but that little oven was one of my successful experiments; one of the few.
If you watch that TV show Forged in Fire all the forges are propane powered and I had never seen anyone using home natural gas. Natural gas doesn't have as many BTUs as propane which is one reason people prefer propane but I didn't want the hassle of the bottles and I would never run out with natural gas so I gave it a try.The propane that is pumped into your house also comes in at less than one 1/4 pound per square inch pressure which is why I needed a fan but you don't need one with propane because you can regulate the pressure as high as the bottle goes and suck in air through a venturi port. So without the fan it's just a big orange flame with no heat but when the fan is pumping air into the thing, it almost sounds like a little jet engine. I was just thrilled the first time it fired up because I wasn't sure it would work at all.
I went out and took a picture of my electric oven; pretty nice out. I also decarb my weed in it!!
Homer...your various hobbies are quite interesting as you actually make things happen. Enjoying the layers here with the grow details. Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant, which brings out the minimalist in you as well.
She's a beaut! I can see why you love it so much. Well done Homer and keep up the great variety of things you do.
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Thank you, cr8grow; it's nice to have people take interest in my interests. I do make things happen but I don't let that interfere with my bountiful leisure-ing. Glad you enjoyed my little projects. I am going to miss the summer in the winter when I can't work in my garage. I am definitely a summer person.
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More the cheap b**t**d but yea, I will go along with minimalist.Brilliant, which brings out the minimalist in you as well.
Hey Homer! Curious if you weld also?More the cheap b**t**d but yea, I will go along with minimalist.
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Very well Done Homer, I think you should contribute this to the Section on Tinctures and such for more poeple to see. Bravo Zulu to youTo recap, I have been curious how efficient the often recommended five-minute soak in the freezer method is for extracting resin from cannabis. So I have one sample that I soaked for five minutes in the freezer at 2.8°F, the second I soaked for one hour at 75°, the third I soaked for one day at 75°F and the final one I have not included because it is not finished evaporating I soaked for one week at 75°F. From the results I have though I don’t think the fourth sample will vary from the second and third so it’s really probably moot.
My cannabis test samples were one-half ounce of Northern Lights that have been curing for about four months and was slightly under 60% moisture content that was then decarbed at 235° for two hours and each test sample was soaked in 4 ounces isopropyl alcohol.
The five-minute freezer soak recovered 2.05 g of resin or 14% of the cannabis by weight which was frankly more than I expected. The one hour soak at 75°F gave 2.27 g or 16.2% which is about 10.7% more yield than from the five-minute soak at 2.8°F. So there is much less difference than I thought there would be so people cold-soaking for less time to have the preferred Golden extract really aren’t losing that much but taking mine orally I think I will be soaking longer but I think I will do it in the freezer because I think the difference is probably owed to the duration and not the temperature so that way I will have less chlorophyll may be.
The one day soak result is kind of mystifying; I assumed there would be slightly more or the same extraction as the one hour soak at the same temperature but it was 2.8% less. I think the natural conclusion is I mixed them up but with my careful labeling, I am 99.99% sure these are the correct results so my only explanation is that there must have been a little variation in the bud. Anybody that wants to insist Homer screwed up I won’t argue.
So in conclusion the five-minute soak at 2.8°F seems pretty darn good and you won’t lose much if you stick with that to avoid chlorophyll but taking mine orally I’m going to experiment with the freezer method and longer soak times. I didn’t run my alcohol extract through a coffee filter either but I honestly cannot see any difference in color intensity or shade so I really don’t think these longer soaks aren't giving much more chlorophyll. Your mileage may vary.
One thing I forgot to mention was those percentages are kind of arbitrary because it is quite dependent on the moisture content of the bud. After I decarbed the 14 g test samples they only weighed 11 g because the moisture had been baked out of them so using the dry weight the first sample instead of 14.6% would have been 18.6% in the second sample instead of 16.2% would have been 20.6%. I don't know what moisture of bud is usually used when these numbers are quoted but I wouldn't be surprised if they went by dry weights just to be more impressive.
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Also congratulations on winning for best picture. I think your plant would win for best as well. Cheers
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Yes, back when I was a millwright apprentice I took a welding course and got my CWB all position stick ticket. Always enjoyed welding but I'm glad I was also a millwright so I didn't have to weld all the time so it was more like a nice diversion when I did.
Thanks, BudShark. I was actually thinking just before I harvest my Gorilla Glue I will photograph it and enter it in, Plant of the Month. I'm really liking this Gorilla Glue; a big bountiful plant that was trained easy and despite being good and sticky and having a pleasant fruity odor it's not bothering my allergies at all unlike most strains; that Northern Lights really had me stuffed up the last month or so. It is on week 5 1/2 of flowering and I am starting to suspect it isn't quite the prolific budder my Northern Lights was but hopefully it is just a late bloomer.