re: Shop Knife

Thank you all for the nice comments. I do use it a lot!!

Hi Bruce. I don't know what kind of steel it is, but the blade was not carbide tipped. so I figured if they could harden the pips of this blade, I could harden the edge. I used and oxy- acetylene torch and quenched it is oil. It seems pretty hard but I  can't test it for hardness. I have one more piece of the hard maple burl in the wood room that I walk  by a lot- still waiting for it to tell me what it wants to be!!!!

Hi Dave. I have been home here since early April- had to do the taxes!! Hey, magnets are so handy in the shop. I must have 7 different sixes but I use the 3/4" the most...and they are getting expensive. I also like the big ring magnets you get from scrapped microwave ovens. I tear them down for the magnets and the transformers ( for fractal burning)