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Nice one ,it looks a cracker .

 

How long did it take to forge ?

 

 

Rob 

 

Rob, it took me about 2 hours total to forge. this is including waiting for my forge to get to temp. Castable refractory does take a bit longer to get to temp. I had to keep it really hot so I once I drew out the edge I had a very short open time where I could move metal easily so I was dancing with this thing getting it hot than back in the forge.. 

 

ausfire, I heated the cutting edge up to austenite than quenched it in what oil I had which was only a quart of cutting oil and ended up boiling that but to my advantage as I didn't want to have to temper the thing it hardened it enough to where a file doesn't bite like when it was soft and my good quality sandpaper doesn't do much cutting either. I also dropped it when I was quenching it and thought it would have broken and it just made a decent spark on the cement and didn't do much damage. 

 

all in all I am pretty happy. cant wait to use it.

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