 salt quench
Salt is faster than water?Sorry, but its the other way around.Im taking about heat treatment salts.These are low temp salts used by the steel industry for quenching and tempering certain steels.Quench a piece(i dont care how thin)of 1095 in these salts and you wont harden it because its a slower quench medium than oils(true heat treat oils or veg.oil).Water hardening 1095 is to risky and will most likley cause cracking.Id choose a deep hardening steel for a hammer head.
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