Heat Treating Knives, Blades etc

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1. Hamon on a straight blade?

   By Woodskevin, December 10, 2011
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   • Woodskevin
   • December 11, 2011

3. Removing oxygen from blade being hardened

   By HennieL, December 8, 2011
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   • Steve Sells
   • December 9, 2011

4. Hardening a Rail-Road Spike

   By Hayden H, September 19, 2011   

   • rail road spike
   • hardening
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   • MattBower
   • November 10, 2011

5. Heat?

   By Bob E, November 8, 2011
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   • basher
   • November 9, 2011

6. the importance of temperature control and normalizing

   By MattBower, October 7, 2011
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   • Don A
   • October 13, 2011

7. Thoughts please on forging/tempering D 2

   By gearhartironwerks, October 12, 2011
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   • JNewman
   • October 12, 2011

8. Tempering knives made from rail car springs.

   By Southpaw92, June 27, 2011
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   • Golden_eagle
   • October 7, 2011

9. I need some advice. 1 2

   By BlissStreet, September 15, 2011
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   • Randy
   • October 4, 2011

10. heat treat titanium

    By cottonmouthforge, September 6, 2011
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    • thingmaker3
    • September 24, 2011

11. Possible decarb? - gas vs solid fuel?

    By son_of_bluegrass, August 26, 2011
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    • ThomasPowers
    • September 1, 2011

12. snapped a blade in half 1 2

    By castlegardener, July 24, 2011   

    • heat treating
    • troubleshooting
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    • Steve Shimanek
    • August 8, 2011

13. I found it! But don't know what it is anymore.

    By pkrankow, August 3, 2011
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    • pkrankow
    • August 4, 2011

14. Tempering a sword

    By 2ball_thepriest, August 1, 2011
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    • ThomasPowers
    • August 1, 2011

15. aging (hardening) for stainless

    By Portland Barrel Company, July 17, 2011
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    • ThomasPowers
    • July 25, 2011

16. HELP!

    By abyss94, July 19, 2011
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    • MattBower
    • July 20, 2011

17. Heat treating chainsaw blade Damascus?

    By Glenn1022, June 19, 2011
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    • Marksnagel
    • June 21, 2011

18. how to soften a file...

    By stebblingur, March 16, 2011
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    • monty
    • June 8, 2011

19. Not as easy as it looks

    By PeterM, June 5, 2011
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    • PeterM
    • June 6, 2011

20. what happens to the abrasion risistance of 01

    By Fred Rowe, May 29, 2011
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    • Rich Hale
    • June 4, 2011

21. Oil vs Water

    By 3lbhammer, May 31, 2011
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    • 3lbhammer
    • May 31, 2011

22. What quench oil

    By bound201, March 23, 2011
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    • cracker72
    • May 14, 2011

23. Knifemaking books

    By MikePierich, May 6, 2011
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    • basher
    • May 13, 2011

24. Warming Oil

    By Cody, April 23, 2011
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    • thingmaker3
    • May 6, 2011

25. Home built heat treat oven

    By Robert Mayo, March 25, 2011
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    • Robert Mayo
    • April 7, 2011

26. Need help heat treating a custom blade

    By Countryboy39067, March 20, 2011
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    • Ken Nelson
    • March 22, 2011