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working with stainless steel?
This is a discussion on working with stainless steel? within the Blacksmithin' forums, part of the Blacksmithing category; I havent worked with stailess steel yet. How is it to forge? how well does it hold an edge(chipping breaking ...
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03-18-2007, 03:59 AM
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 working with stainless steel?
I havent worked with stailess steel yet. How is it to forge? how well does it hold an edge(chipping breaking etc...)?Useful for tools? Sean  |
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03-18-2007, 03:08 PM
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I forged some steak turners out of 3/8" sq. stainless last fall. It was harder than the preverbial woodpeckers lips. Made for a lot of hard & heavy hammering.
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03-18-2007, 03:11 PM
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Which stainless steel? There are a bunch of alloys ranging from soft and gooey to hard and brittle and they work differently. Tell us the alloy and we'll speculate on it's use. In general stainless is harder to work than plain carbon steel and my require special heat treat/passivation to make it stainless again after forging. 303 is quite different from 440C. Thomas
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