Heat Treating Knives, Blades etc

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1. Need help on hatchet heads

   By Kessler, October 1, 2012
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   • ThomasPowers
   • October 1, 2012

3. RotoTiller Tine - what steel???

   By MadHatter, December 27, 2011   

   • mystery-steel heat-treat
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   • Rich Hale
   • September 26, 2012

4. Lead Hardened High Carbon ???????

   By SReynolds, August 7, 2012
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   • mat
   • September 23, 2012

5. Easiest way for me to anneal?

   By Gundog48, August 19, 2012
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   • Maillemaker
   • September 4, 2012

6. blade broke after quench

   By thunderforge777, August 21, 2012
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   • Aden Cassidy
   • August 27, 2012

7. Do I need to Normalize

   By kevLaur, August 6, 2012
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   • thingmaker3
   • August 20, 2012

8. lawnmower blade heat treating? 1 2

   By Crunch, September 14, 2009
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   • Steve Sells
   • August 6, 2012

9. Is a conventional oven suitable for annealing?

   By Jonathan Deguzman, July 26, 2012   

   • annealing
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   • Steve Sells
   • July 26, 2012

10. tempering small file knives

    By Kendall P, May 15, 2012   

    • tempering file knives
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    • Whirly
    • July 10, 2012

11. Beating a dead horse

    By GregDP, June 12, 2012   

    • Adding carbon
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    • Francis Trez Cole
    • June 30, 2012

12. Trying to harden and temper a hawk, NEED ADVICE

    By BTKS, May 9, 2012   

    • heat treating
    • tomahawk
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      • tomahawk
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    • BTKS
    • June 15, 2012

13. Heat treating oven

    By Rangerdave, June 10, 2012
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    • timgunn1962
    • June 10, 2012

14. Question from a new guy

    By rdnkfireman2001, May 11, 2012
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    • son_of_bluegrass
    • May 12, 2012

15. Do I need to harden?

    By Silverker, April 23, 2012
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    • 50calmike
    • May 9, 2012

16. Heat treating

    By 50calmike, January 2, 2009
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    • Frosty
    • April 22, 2012

17. Tempering first experiments => first problems/questions

    By Mihai4Z, April 21, 2012   

    • Drawknife
    • ways of temperig
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    • pkrankow
    • April 21, 2012

18. Heat treat mishap

    By Unsalted1, March 12, 2012
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    • fluidsteel
    • April 4, 2012

19. Times heat treat

    By Unsalted1, March 14, 2012
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    • basher
    • March 18, 2012

20. Help with annealing A2

    By brian robertson, March 5, 2012
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    • pkrankow
    • March 6, 2012

21. Turn down, Single Sweep, Sweep blade edges

    By Hayden H, February 27, 2012   

    • Turn Down
    • Sweep
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      • Single Sweep
      • plow steel
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    • Hayden H
    • February 29, 2012

22. Looking for technical term

    By j.w.s., January 16, 2012
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    • MattBower
    • January 19, 2012

23. tempering color 1 2

    By saintjohnbarleycorn, December 19, 2011
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    • saintjohnbarleycorn
    • January 10, 2012

24. Modern spin on and old tempering technique????

    By Brasilikilt, January 8, 2012
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    • ThomasPowers
    • January 9, 2012

25. O-1 steel air cooled breaking 1 2

    By Caldera, November 16, 2011
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    • MattBower
    • December 26, 2011

26. Minimum time to harden a thin blade 1 2

    By HennieL, December 9, 2011
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    • pkrankow
    • December 13, 2011