Case Hardening and alloying

[Dodge]

Has something happened to Woody???

[Quenchcrack]

Knarfle, forgive us for responding with a bit of biting sarcasm. To date, you are 1,285,763rd teen aged boy who posted on one of the metalworking sites wanting to make a sword. It is clear to us that you have done a little research but probably not of sufficient depth to have a clear understanding of the impossibility of your suggestions. We do not mean to discourage you. But when people post things like this without doing all the homework, we grow weary. Don A gave you some very simple and accurate answers. If you want more technical answers, JPH is a PhD metallurgist who makes exquisite blades. I am a Metallurgical Engineer with 30+ years of experience. We would be happy to address your specific and informed questions. Uh, and don't mess with Thomas Powers: he lives in the desert, works for the Government and glows in the dark.

[ThomasPowers]

Think of the money I save on not having to use lights after dark!

But really the glow in the dark stuff is a bit that-away from me; though I did visit the Trinity site...

We're the crew listening to what the stars are saying and QuenchCrack; they don't like you----they don't like you at all!

(When getting my CIS degree back in the old days of cattle car computer labs I used to wear my disreputable red hat when I went to use the terminals, setting it on top of the CRT to keep some of the glare off the screen. Then I would put on my hearing protectors to cut out some of the noise. When people next to me would ask me if they were a radio I would explain that they were just hearing protectors and I wore them so I could hear the voices in my head better---then I would look over their shoulder, squint a bit and then look them in the face and say "they don't like you----they don't like you at all!" and suddenly I had a greatly increased personal work space...)

[Quenchcrack]

Thomas, my wife grew up in NM, Roswell to be exact. Down wind of some notorious thermonuclear events. I grew up north of Denver, down wind of Rocky Flats Nuclear Plant (Your source for all things plutonium). So far, her mother died of breast cancer and I have had two carcenomas removed. That glow in the dark stuff is not as much fun as it used to be, eh?