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I'm pretty sure that the problem was due to trapped flux.

What I'm having trouble getting my head around is 'If I can take a second heat to do the other half of a billet, why can't a subsequent heat weld a spot that did not weld the first time?' I did 3 or...

Here is a picture of the bad spot before cutting it out.
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When I cut down the san mai cleaver and continued thinning the blade I ran into another welding flaw on the other side of the blade, but the grinding is cleaning it up pretty well. I think I will get...

I decided to do a san mai exercise in order to practice my welding and to learn about core distortion during extreme drawing.

I started with a piece of 1095 1/4" x 1" x 5" and two equal size...