The Young forge
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I do it at a yellow?red and an atlas mini forge, propane powered it gets up to 2800 Farenheit
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when I forge and the cracking happens, I use 5160 leaf springs, when I used the file and it went well it was 1095, the bar stock I used and cracked was also 1095, that Is why I am confused, I don't know if he steel is not hot enough when I hammer it, or if the steel itself was cracked before. and thanks for the tip of being thankful, always a good idea TYF
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Dale Russell, first of all if you had a problem with me in chat, the mature thing would be to privately message me, not post it on a topic which is used for sharing of knowledge. I told you I had read Mr. sells book twice, because I have, yes it was very helpful, but it did not contain the answer to my problem. when we spoke in chat I acknowledged your tip about the metal needing to be hotter did I not? I even used it the next day. now if you have more to say to me, which is helpful and not worthless quarreling for both of us, please message me. TYF
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Red1981, im using spring steel and 1095
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Anthony, I do see it crack and try to stop as I do, I even tried forge welding but I cannot get it to stop, like I posted I said that the file I used worked fine, but all the other leaf springs did not, it is most likely leaf springs have the cracks, but it has even happened on barstock
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it is cracking during the forging, not in the heat treatment
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Hey guys, I am a young bladesmith and am trying to figure out how to make my steel sto cracking. I make knives all the time, but only a few forged ones came out withous cracks, I used a file and it worked great, I used a leafspring and it cracked like ice, help!!