Cethial

Thank you all for the good advice. I did start out with mild steel. I've been lurking around the forums for a few months now. Although I got to admit I have far more reading to do. I guess I should wait with my mystery steel and gather more information. Thank you all. Cethial

Thanks for the quick response, honestly I barely have any experience. I'm having a tough time finding good material here in Denmark, which is why my colleague told me to bring the tool home and try it. It might as well be the material the tool is made out of that is hard xxxxxxxl. Otherwise I might do something horribly wrong when I'm forging

Hi IFI I work as a machinist and at work I often talk to my colleague about forging, he gave me some material to try forging at home. I went home to forge it and for the first hour it was alright to hammer the material, but after 4 hours of hammering I started getting nowhere. I asked him back at work what kind kind of material he gave me and he said it was special tool steel. I complained for a while as I barely could hammer it. He then said that since I'm using a coal forge, I'm passively increasing the carbon content in the steel. I was aware of this, but I didn't think it would be by such a huge amount. my question is does anyone have an estimate on how much it matters? And how much carbon is added to the steel? Best regards