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This is a discussion on Metallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths within the Knives in General forums, part of the Bladesmithing category; I have a document in Adobe titled "Metallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths & Others who Heat Treat and Forge Steel", ...
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11-04-2006, 12:19 PM
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 Metallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths
I have a document in Adobe titled "Metallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths & Others who Heat Treat and Forge Steel", 200 + pages, By John D. Verhoeven Emeritus Professor, Iowa State University, March 2005. While it is extremely technical in nature, there are summaries of all the important points at the end of each chapter that are easy to understand and very clear and concise. It will help dispell some of the myths and alchemy associated with Knifemaking in particular and forging and heat treating steel in general. Also have an Adobe document "Experiments on Knife Sharpening", 55 + pages, September 2004 by the same author. If anyone is interested, please email me and I will send you a copy of one or both. Woody
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11-06-2006, 07:58 AM
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Definitely an interest. Sent you a pm with the addy. Thanks for the offer. Edit: Have to add that is some great information. Though the 8mb file size might throw you off a bit. They are definitely a must have in my opinion. Thanks again for the information. Last edited by Candidquality; 11-07-2006 at 02:59 PM. |
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11-08-2006, 11:45 AM
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Woody anyway you can post this as a link to PDF ? So it can be downloaded directly from this thread. Possibly we can make this a sticky -Must read- for any beginning blade smith. Jens
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11-08-2006, 12:23 PM
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Jens: I downloaded the documents a while back and I don't remember what site I got them from. I will do a little searching around and see what I can come up with. Woody
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11-08-2006, 12:27 PM
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I found the link Woody, It can be downloaded here: http://mse.iastate.edu/files/verhoeven/7-5.pdf If you have DSL it only takes about 30 seconds , but 8.1 Megs on dial-up may be a little bit of a wait.
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11-08-2006, 12:50 PM
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Hey Jens: I just came back in to post the link I found it too. I see he also has some articles on damascus blades, but they are published in a scientific magazine and you have to buy the book. Bet they would be interesting too. Woody
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11-08-2006, 02:00 PM
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Hmm I didn't see those... And you haven't posted the links because Why ???  C'mon and post 'em Pretty please Woody Jens
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11-09-2006, 12:51 AM
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hey thanks for the heat treat document! I'll be reading it a lot 
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11-09-2006, 04:58 AM
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This was quite a help for me to understand quite a bit more about metal. I have only picked out specific areas as the document is so large, there's a wealth of info in this. After seeing the chart on page 50, and talking to my instructor, a light kinda flipped on and I realized the 2nd 2 numbers are the carbon content in steel. The explaination of how the first 2 digits change depending on the alloy was also helpful. Yeah, I'm a bit green on metal, and even more reason I appreciate passing this on to the IFI folks. There's a lot of info in that doc.  |
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