Heat Treating Knives, Blades etc

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1. How do you temper on the curve?

   By Saiga308, June 19, 2008
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   • Robert Mayo
   • June 19, 2008

3. Oven tempering

   By Dan W, May 29, 2008
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   • brucegodlesky
   • June 16, 2008

4. how do I heat treat this

   By triw, June 6, 2008
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   • ThomasPowers
   • June 16, 2008

5. clay coating and quenching problems

   By mattjayne9090, May 25, 2008
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   • mattjayne9090
   • May 27, 2008

6. Edge/torch quenching W1

   By Feukair, May 20, 2008
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   • Feukair
   • May 22, 2008

7. hardening?

   By shaun, April 13, 2008
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   • ThomasPowers
   • April 15, 2008

8. Inhection heating for heat treating blades

   By Glenn, April 14, 2008
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   • Glenn
   • April 14, 2008

9. Should have tempered

   By LDW, February 25, 2008
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   • LDW
   • February 27, 2008

10. annealling and normalizing

    By steveh, February 11, 2008
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    • steveh
    • February 11, 2008

11. Heat treating L6, MA5M

    By loneronin, January 27, 2008
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    • Quenchcrack
    • February 3, 2008

12. Alright! my 2nd hamon!

    By Feukair, January 20, 2008
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    • Feukair
    • January 20, 2008

13. Japanese heat treat clay mix

    By Mende, January 3, 2008
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    • Mende
    • January 3, 2008

14. :) Temperline!!

    By RainsFire, December 26, 2007
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    • Feukair
    • December 30, 2007

15. Selective tempering, achieving a hamon

    By RainsFire, November 16, 2007
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    • RainsFire
    • December 1, 2007

16. Cryogenic Treatment of Blades

    By blkbear, August 9, 2007
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    • ThomasPowers
    • August 10, 2007

17. A funny thing happened on the way to quenching

    By JimCrawford, February 5, 2007
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    • Ron Hicks
    • February 6, 2007

18. Weird Hamon activity...

    By oakwoodforge, October 17, 2006
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    • Tyler Murch
    • November 13, 2006

19. heat treating a long blade

    By backyardsmith, October 20, 2006
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    • Alan DuBoff
    • November 6, 2006

20. Oil Quenchant for Heat Treating

    By Graham Fredeen, August 16, 2006
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    • Sam Salvati
    • August 21, 2006

21. What's a Hamon line?

    By Blacksmith Jim, August 8, 2006
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    • B. Norris
    • August 9, 2006

22. How do you do your clay heat treating ?

    By oakwoodforge, June 19, 2006
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    • oakwoodforge
    • June 21, 2006

23. Interesting hamon ...

    By oakwoodforge, March 6, 2006
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    • pjskinner
    • March 9, 2006

24. quenching oil?

    By Archie Zietman, July 7, 2005
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    • HWooldridge
    • July 9, 2005