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I've recently browsed the Atlanta Cutlery site, and have been mildly intrigued by various of their cheaper offerings. (Their higher-end stuff is out of range of my slim budget these days.)
Though I wouldn't expect their khuk offerings to be of the quality that we're used to in the H.I. forum, it strikes me that things like tomahawks (for casual "beat-it-up, chop-wood-in-the-back-yard, throw it casually, etc. use) might not be a mistake to get from them. Similarly, I see that they offer some un-handled blades in what they call "carbon steel", for under $20. As to these, does anyone have any experience with them? For that price, it strikes me that even if the heat-treatment is bad or nonexistent, one could heat the blade, then have a go at hardening it oneself--say by the Filipino trick Alexander Weygers described, chopping the hot blade edge-down into a squash or some such, for a poor-man's differential hardening. Any reason this strikes anyone as inherently infeasible?
What experience has anyone out there had with Atlanta Cutlery's stuff? Is it indeed all made by Windlass of India? Anything else I need to know?
Though I wouldn't expect their khuk offerings to be of the quality that we're used to in the H.I. forum, it strikes me that things like tomahawks (for casual "beat-it-up, chop-wood-in-the-back-yard, throw it casually, etc. use) might not be a mistake to get from them. Similarly, I see that they offer some un-handled blades in what they call "carbon steel", for under $20. As to these, does anyone have any experience with them? For that price, it strikes me that even if the heat-treatment is bad or nonexistent, one could heat the blade, then have a go at hardening it oneself--say by the Filipino trick Alexander Weygers described, chopping the hot blade edge-down into a squash or some such, for a poor-man's differential hardening. Any reason this strikes anyone as inherently infeasible?
What experience has anyone out there had with Atlanta Cutlery's stuff? Is it indeed all made by Windlass of India? Anything else I need to know?