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I have finished the Cu Mai blade Veggie Chopper, it looks ok and it will cut 😁 The Coffee Etch for 12 hours worked very well 👌 cheers dave

yes it was a difficult decision to put 1/2 a jar of Coffee into a bottle just to soak the blade in over night, but hey it will be wide awake in the morning 🤣

I'm working on a Cu Mai style blade for a Veggie Chopper, it's coming along nicely High carbon steel for the core, then 1mm copper (split from 3/4" pipe) and then 2.6mm cladding for the outside of the blade, It all started off at 200mm x 50mm x 11mm fully Mig welded around the edges, to seal...

Your crevice tools look very effective 👍 these are the crevicing tools I make 👌 cheers dave

thanks Mackka

thanks Manpa, there is a lot of work goes into making these Chefs knives, but I like it and they are a fun project 🤔🍻

Today I made, well it took a few days really :) but I got it finished today Damascus steel Chefs knife the steel is 1095 and 15n20 forge welded and twisted to around 352 layers (I bought the billet) I don't have enough heavy duty machinery to do the billet myself yet Anyway I cut and ground...

we have Starlink it great for internet and phone calls send and receive anywhere in Australia, it uses WiFi calling but you will still need some kind of Sim card in your phone, we have the boost mobile pre paid and all good

exactly right Rick, but hey it's still better than working 🤔🤣

I think there are several very unstable guys running/ruining countries with huge economies right now and the has already hit the fan 🤔

😳🫣🤔 where will it go to $123 per gram now

It's not showing any signs of slowing down any time soon

First go at making a Cu Mai billet in my home gas forge, it actually worked not to bad, judging the heat is a bit tricky, to hot and the copper is to liquid and wants to find an escape spot which is where the thinnest line of copper is in the blade. I used a piece of 5mm thick plough disk for...

I think it just loads all the leases for WA and you just use a map for the area of interest, Like Kalgoorlie Geo 100,000 : 1 for example and just zoom in or out, well that's what we do anyway, the red slide bar near the bottom just slide it back and forth to see the map or the leases or just...

yes and this is why we go to WA every winter to go detecting,

there isn't one, just a set of various rules to follow

Gold price in Aussie dollars

If you have a nice amount send it to a refiner and have them do it and send you back to you, stamped 9999 ingots with their makers mark. You will waste a lot of gold learning to do the refining process yourself. Just do the standard melt with borax yourself and leave it at that. This is my...

these are excellent, and can be used not only on the 4500 but on the GPZ7000 the SDC2300 and many others as well. we used this SP01 steelphase booster with dual external speakers on the 4500 and the 7000 to good effect

classifying sieves for panning gold, some people go to a lot of trouble to pan gold, the claim is that everything goes into the course sieve at the top and everything of various sizes is captured as it's works it way to the bottom sieve, and then each sieve is panned separately and nothing else...