Scott gallagher
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Scot there is a heat treat app for I phone and android it's a great tool. If your just starting out 1084 is a great steel. You can quench it in canola oil successfully. As far as water quench w1 w2. But I will say do your home work before beginning with w series steels as they are not as easy to work at first.American bladesmith. Society has all kinds of info that will help.make sparks!
scott gallagher
Having trouble with annealing
in Heat Treating Knives, Blades etc
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Dustin did you normalize after you forged? If not you can still. Reheat the blade to critical tempeture,still air cool,
to black , reheat to a lower tempeture but still a red not orange, reheat to a cherry red then vermiculite,
you should then be able to machine.
Scott
Each cycle requires to cool to black before reheating this is called thermocycling
scot