Heat Treating Knives, Blades etc

498 topics in this forum

1. Tempering 1095 blades to blue

   By Rsparozi, December 20, 2018
   • 21 replies
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   • Irondragon Forge ClayWorks
   • October 6, 2020

3. what is your process for heat treating a farriers rasp?

   By homeshow, November 6, 2013
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   • ThomasPowers
   • October 5, 2020

4. 1095 quench failed.Help.

   By DBUDD0872, September 23, 2020
   • 4 replies
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   • Frosty
   • September 24, 2020

5. Quenching farrier rasps

   By LazyM, September 23, 2020
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   • anvil
   • September 23, 2020

6. Western Blade Blanks

   By kizzer, July 28, 2020
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   • ThomasPowers
   • July 29, 2020

7. Not tempering 5160

   By PedroS, July 7, 2020   

   • temper
   • 5160
   • 6 replies
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   • Nobody Special
   • July 10, 2020

8. Re-softening a clay tempered blade

   By Olorin, June 10, 2020
   • 24 replies
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   • Frosty
   • July 5, 2020

9. Heat treating mystery steel?

   By aprayinbear, June 25, 2009
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   • Steve Sells
   • June 21, 2020

10. Treating D2 in a coal forge

    By lyuv, June 15, 2020
    • 2 replies
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    • Irondragon Forge ClayWorks
    • June 16, 2020

11. Brand new metalworker

    By Syncmanatl, March 30, 2020
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    • Steve Sells
    • March 30, 2020

12. Dumb Question about tempering 1 2

    By Clayton M., August 20, 2014   

    • tempering
    • 31 replies
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    • rhitee93
    • March 18, 2020

13. Ceramic kiln for Salt Bath Heat Treating

    By Preachinpilot, December 26, 2019
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    • Latticino
    • December 26, 2019

14. Re heat treat old half hatchet? 1 2

    By Cleave, December 4, 2019
    • 28 replies
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    • Cleave
    • December 18, 2019

15. Oil tank question

    By MilwaukeeJon, December 2, 2019
    • 8 replies
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    • MilwaukeeJon
    • December 3, 2019

16. Rye Oil Quenching Oil

    By blaksdc, October 28, 2019
    • 15 replies
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    • JHCC
    • November 8, 2019

17. First Chopper Project/ Quench Questions

    By Mason_Stoney, October 1, 2019   

    • chopper
    • leafspring
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      • chopper
      • leafspring
      • neebie
    • 7 replies
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    • ThomasPowers
    • October 2, 2019

18. Noobie question about normalizing

    By PhillyAlchemist, September 13, 2019
    • 12 replies
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    • anvil
    • September 27, 2019

19. Dirty cable damascus

    By Wakapalypse, September 13, 2019
    • 6 replies
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    • BIGGUNDOCTOR
    • September 16, 2019

20. Firth-Sterling Circle C

    By Pete Resseguie-Snyder, August 25, 2019
    • 8 replies
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    • Frosty
    • August 25, 2019

21. Tempering a Railroad Spike 1 2

    By Brandonk42, July 25, 2011
    • 25 replies
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    • Zippy Ustar
    • August 24, 2019

22. Re forging blade after grinding? Should I?

    By Luis Vernabe, August 11, 2018
    • 11 replies
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    • Irondragon Forge ClayWorks
    • August 21, 2019

23. Advice on differential HT with 1095

    By MikeTausig, July 26, 2019
    • 9 replies
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    • Mod42
    • July 26, 2019

24. Overkill homebrewed knife quench tank 1 2

    By picker77, June 12, 2019   

    • quench tank
    • 25 replies
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    • G-son
    • June 19, 2019

25. Evenheat Kiln

    By Dwithrow84, June 6, 2019
    • 7 replies
    • 1.5k views
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    • Frosty
    • June 7, 2019

26. Terrified of quenching O2 knife 1 2

    By Gustav, May 5, 2019   

    • normalizing
    • hardening
    • 30 replies
    • 6.1k views
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    • Irondragon Forge ClayWorks
    • June 6, 2019