Heat Treating Knives, Blades etc

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1. Shell Voluta C400 quench oil?

   By Lyman, April 26, 2010
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   • thingmaker3
   • July 18, 2010

3. improvised clay for hardening

   By newbladesmith, June 7, 2010
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   • 30cal_Fun
   • July 13, 2010

4. Question about hardning

   By Minion, June 15, 2010
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   • MattBower
   • June 15, 2010

5. O2 Hamon?

   By 30cal_Fun, May 27, 2010
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   • irontanner
   • June 3, 2010

6. How to tell?

   By Mende, May 19, 2010
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   • Rich Hale
   • May 20, 2010

7. quick question on tempering

   By lanchie76, May 11, 2010
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   • lanchie76
   • May 12, 2010

8. Quenching: Water or Oil? 1 2

   By 30cal_Fun, May 1, 2010
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   • 30cal_Fun
   • May 10, 2010

9. Tempering a spear?

   By Mark Wargo New2bs, April 23, 2010
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   • Steve Sells
   • April 26, 2010

10. refractory clay recipe for creating a hamon

    By hammerfell, April 8, 2010
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    • martensite
    • April 9, 2010

11. Heat treating 1035 steel

    By Andrew Smith, February 11, 2010
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    • bigfootnampa
    • February 18, 2010

12. HT info

    By NRunals, February 13, 2010
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    • basher
    • February 15, 2010

13. A2 Steel

    By jmeineke, December 30, 2009
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    • sandpile
    • February 2, 2010

14. HELP!- basics of tempering and heat treating

    By jason hawk, January 10, 2010
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    • brian.pierson
    • January 16, 2010

15. Heat Treating, The bloke method.

    By gonefishin, January 8, 2010
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    • Meisenmann
    • January 13, 2010

16. heat treating with clay?

    By Rravan, January 4, 2010
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    • Rravan
    • January 7, 2010

17. Quenching blades/less toxic quenchant.

    By evant, December 21, 2009
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    • nthe10ring
    • January 4, 2010

18. W-1 question

    By NRunals, December 29, 2009
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    • brucegodlesky
    • December 30, 2009

19. high carbon steel heat quenching

    By saintjohnbarleycorn, December 30, 2009
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    • saintjohnbarleycorn
    • December 30, 2009

20. Two questions: repeated heat treatment and excessive carburization

    By overmodulated, December 20, 2009
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    • ThomasPowers
    • December 23, 2009

21. Hardening without tempering, for same results?

    By shosen, December 5, 2009
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    • shosen
    • December 8, 2009

22. comment on sticky

    By Iron Bear, November 15, 2009
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    • Steve Sells
    • December 7, 2009

23. Metallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths 1 2 3

    By Woody, November 4, 2006
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    • Iron Bear
    • December 2, 2009

24. strange surface pattern after heat treating

    By overmodulated, October 18, 2009
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    • MattBower
    • November 18, 2009

25. practicality of heat treating with plumber's propane torch

    By overmodulated, November 5, 2009
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    • ThomasPowers
    • November 16, 2009

26. walnut oil quenching

    By Red Cloud, October 23, 2009
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    • bigfootnampa
    • October 23, 2009