Tyler Murch

New hawk of mine. Farrier rasp. Water quenched. Hickory handle. Grilled grip treatment. :cool:

after looking at the pictures you put in the gallery, it looks like some of them may be good welds, but the end of the scarf is too thick, so it fused, but it didn't blend in, maybe

work quickly, the thin edges of the scarf cool fast, tap it lightly until you know they are welded, then hit it harder

Working in (rather than on) big steel! I like it.

Did this a few weeks ago, similar. Similar and identical are similar, but they are not identical.

The surface of that plane doesn't look like what I was talking about.

I no longer heat treat directly in contact with the fuel, so I can't tell you what steels it will definately work with, BUT, any steel will decarburize and carburize, thus it should work with any steel, BUT some steels are more resistant to decarb. I believe O-1 is one of them, off the top of my head.

As I recently learned, it is probably the effect of spot carburization. When heating and heat treating in a coal or charcoal forge, the places on the steel that are in direct contact with the fuel carburize, and the places not in direct contact with the fuel decarburize. It's what SOME people MAY call a blister effect. There will be lots of small raised round dots varying in size. I've seen some probably 3/4 the diameter of a dime.

Thank you. Paracord has just recently come back to intriguing me. This is the first one I've done in this style. Also, forging knives from this size of stock really makes you have to make the most of the material you have by forging well.

Paracord wrapped utility knife. Forged from 3/8" 1095 and martempered.



Rough and tough!

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I agree with Bruce. If your horn is on the opposite side of your tong hand, you will most often need to take a step to the side to go from face to horn, or horn to face. This isn't efficient.

The air supply comes from a pipe that is at the bottom and comes in at a 90 deg. angle, horizontal to the ground. You need about a 2" dia pipe. Leave it wide open, no grate or anything.

Lined with clay soil and ashes. You can do either - or, or a mixture of both.

By the way, it looks hotter in the picture than it really is.

I use charcoal, and I don't think it would get hot enough for heat treating without forced air.

This is my heat treating set up. Flattened steel pipe and two inches of kaowool on top for insulation, fuel conservation, and regulating temp. Works quite well. Allows you to observe the steel more easily while heating.

Hello,
Could someone make it easy on me and demystify this by providing a list of all the components needed to make a hydraulic press, please.
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Also, warming the oil up to 120 f. + or - will actually make it quench faster than ambient temperature oil.

Before going to the water quench, you may want to try raising the temperature of the steel before quenching. I have some auto coil spring, I'm not sure what kind of steel it is. It's not 5160 or 1095, but it will not harden right at non-magnetic it will not harden. In heat treating, time and temperature have everything to do with microstructure.

Cool. Nice one.

I can't get that link to work, but TTT charts are helpful. There is a lot of good stuff on the internet about heat treating. I keep a stack of print-outs on what I call the basics of beyond the basics heat treating. Mostly on marquenching, thermal cycling, and water quenching.

Cool. I was just thinking of something similar to this when I saw in a book a tomahawk made from brass with a steel bit riveted on. Neat method.

One of my favorite somewhat blacksmithing related quotes from literature would be by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Pertaining to individuality and your true self. "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

Mike, I'm gonna do the next one differently. Don't know when I'll do it though. Ron, it was chain link.

Thanks guys.
Hey Clark, the "thingy" was a large trailer ball.
Hey Mike, it's ok with me. There's no way to control it. It wasn't exactly what I wanted, but it's cool.

Thanks