Heat Treating Knives, Blades etc

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1. Can I use Perlite to anneal steel?

   By price403, April 13, 2013
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   • Frosty
   • April 18, 2013

3. Heat Treating a Blade 01 & 1520

   By TRIPP, December 31, 2012
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   • TRIPP
   • March 26, 2013

4. hardening issues

   By zach124816, March 14, 2013
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   • zach124816
   • March 15, 2013

5. Differential-Hardening (Japanese swords)

   By Chris Zaker, February 20, 2013
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   • Chris Zaker
   • February 27, 2013

6. Grain in blade that was broken

   By KenH, February 6, 2013
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   • DanielC
   • February 26, 2013

7. proper heat treat for 51XX leaf spring?

   By homeshow, February 10, 2013
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   • homeshow
   • February 19, 2013

8. Quenching in Oil vs Water?

   By jgraeff, January 17, 2013
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   • Frank Turley
   • January 24, 2013

9. not a good day heat treating

   By gearhartironwerks, January 13, 2013
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   • Richard Furrer
   • January 17, 2013

10. My blades are breaking!!

    By Makerx, January 9, 2013
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    • son_of_bluegrass
    • January 14, 2013

11. Annealling 1095

    By Taylor Made, November 2, 2012   

    • anneal 1095 carbon steel
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    • Taylor Made
    • January 10, 2013

12. Another heat treating,tempering and file question.

    By NavySWCC37, December 24, 2012
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    • ThomasPowers
    • December 26, 2012

13. blades too brittle

    By thunderforge777, December 23, 2012
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    • ThomasPowers
    • December 24, 2012

14. heat treating a double edged knife 1 2

    By Brad L, December 4, 2011
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    • Rhettbarnhart
    • December 21, 2012

15. Oven Tempering

    By Davidcook432, December 18, 2012   

    • Ove
    • steel
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    • Justin Carnecchia
    • December 19, 2012

16. Left knife in oven....

    By liamh, December 8, 2012
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    • knives85
    • December 10, 2012

17. Need info on heat treating 4 bar bloomery/wrought iron blade.

    By griffinforge, November 17, 2012
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    • ThomasPowers
    • November 27, 2012

18. First knife

    By Samurai 24, November 24, 2012
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    • Steve Sells
    • November 26, 2012

19. First Successful Hamon

    By TheoRockNazz, November 18, 2012
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    • quint
    • November 18, 2012

20. salt pot heat treating

    By gearhartironwerks, October 22, 2012
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    • gearhartironwerks
    • November 17, 2012

21. question about tempering

    By WraithsNinja, October 24, 2012
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    • Don A
    • November 8, 2012

22. Rockwell tester for blades

    By gearhartironwerks, October 13, 2012
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    • Steve Sells
    • November 7, 2012

23. anyone familiar with o2?

    By royce unruh, September 24, 2012
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    • royce unruh
    • October 29, 2012

24. Rockwell tester set up?

    By RGraff, October 14, 2012
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    • RGraff
    • October 20, 2012

25. Finally, a kiln

    By Sam Salvati, October 10, 2012
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    • HWooldridge
    • October 10, 2012

26. Heat Treating at Home, Preventing Scale, Overheat and Decarburization

    By Corin, October 1, 2012
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    • Corin
    • October 2, 2012