So I've already made a post about using spring steel for a makeshift anvil and welding spring steel. I got a lot of support and help! But I was wondering about heat treating spring steel. So I've heard from a couple different knife makers that spring steel is a pretty good material to make knives out of, but spring steel is already hardened (at least the spring steel I have). So I have a couple of questions:
- If your making a knife out of spring steel that is hard enough to dull a drill bit but soft enough to have a file just barely dig into it, does it need to be hardened further?
- If it does need to be hardened further, you would need to normalize it first right? But can you normalize spring steel?
- If you can normalize spring steel, will it eventually get down to the hardness of mild steel? Or will it always stay harder?
- If you can normalize spring steel, does it always remain bendy? Or does it lose its bendiness?
- Lastly, is my info correct? Is spring steel a good material to make knives out of?
I hope I'm not annoying people about all these spring steel questions Sorry if I am!
- Brewny