The Young forge

I do it at a yellow?red and an atlas mini forge, propane powered it gets up to 2800 Farenheit

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

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

Red1981, im using spring steel and 1095

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

it is cracking during the forging, not in the heat treatment

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!!