Heat Treating Knives, Blades etc

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1. Critique my grain

   By jmhallrn, April 27, 2022
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   • jmhallrn
   • April 28, 2022

3. 5160 questions

   By Kette, March 24, 2022
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   • ThomasPowers
   • March 24, 2022

4. is it possible that i could pay someone here to heat treat a knife or two for me? 1 2

   By chrisyancy, March 10, 2022
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   • Frosty
   • March 23, 2022

5. File steel.

   By elbowroom, March 13, 2022
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   • ThomasPowers
   • March 13, 2022

6. Bluebacking a knife blade

   By dickb, February 16, 2022   

   • heatreat
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   • Steve Sells
   • February 19, 2022

7. question about sharpening after temper

   By swashbuckler_, December 2, 2021
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   • Bob Brandl
   • January 29, 2022

8. Given a choice, Vermiculite or Perlite for annealing?

   By Barnaby, May 6, 2009
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   • Irondragon Forge ClayWorks
   • January 26, 2022

9. Heat treat O1 problems

   By Joshhuntknives, January 15, 2022
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   • Frosty
   • January 17, 2022

10. 5160 heat treat 1 2

    By bigfootnampa, January 8, 2022
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    • Buzzkill
    • January 11, 2022

11. Heat treating AR400

    By HUTT SMITH, December 2, 2021
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    • Buzzkill
    • December 6, 2021

12. Paragon High Fire kiln

    By Calkidd, November 5, 2021
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    • Frosty
    • November 7, 2021

13. Claying a blade 1 2

    By Chad J., October 5, 2021
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    • Steve Sells
    • October 26, 2021

14. Drawing the spine back...

    By WAGONJON, September 4, 2021
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    • anvil
    • September 7, 2021

15. Could this be water hardening?

    By Cannon Cocker, July 31, 2021
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    • ThomasPowers
    • August 2, 2021

16. Grain Structure

    By SinDoc, July 1, 2021
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    • SinDoc
    • July 12, 2021

17. Had a cracked blade

    By Chad J., June 26, 2021
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    • anvil
    • June 29, 2021

18. Metal tempering without an oven

    By MisterJohn, March 31, 2021   

    • knifemaking
    • treating
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    • anvil
    • June 26, 2021

19. First try at a damascus blade

    By dps9999, November 12, 2015
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    • Dirtythumper8481
    • June 4, 2021

20. Heat treating spring steel and normalizing spring steel.

    By Brewny, April 15, 2021   

    • knife
    • steel
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      • knife
      • steel
      • leaf spring
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    • ThomasPowers
    • April 19, 2021

21. Affordable Ways to Quench 1 2

    By Kadin M, April 7, 2021
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    • Frosty
    • April 15, 2021

22. Rookie question - Already annealed and then identified a bend - how to address it

    By Harbinger, March 7, 2021
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    • ThomasPowers
    • March 9, 2021

23. Color after temper?

    By masonred, January 24, 2021
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    • D.IVO
    • February 12, 2021

24. Noob here with an annealing question

    By BendSteel, December 21, 2020
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    • swedefiddle
    • January 27, 2021

25. Metallurgists I need your help hardening 80CRV2

    By Jrfradella, December 17, 2020
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    • Jrfradella
    • December 18, 2020

26. Color of 1095 steel 1 2

    By Wolface2, October 6, 2020
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    • Steve Sells
    • October 16, 2020