Samuel T

Hello fellow bladesmith, I've recently started a project of building a treadle hammer. I am conflicted on how to best secure my dies to the anvil and hammer. One thing I've seen online had been a mild steel base welded to a medium or high carbon die, then bolted to the top of the anvil and bottom of hammer. My real question is after preheating and post heating the welding of the mild and high carbon, do I need to heat treat my die to achieve the high hardness necessary in a die? I thought of doing a few thermal cycles with the entire base and die assembled, then heating it to non-magnetic and quenching in oil. Will this quenching destroy my welds? I hope my question came out right. Any advice would be greatly appreciated thank you

Show my problem is that when I have all three of my Frosty T burner is running I am only able to reach a PSI of 7th. When I have two burners off it just wasn't ready I'm only able to reach 17 PSI. I have a high pressure regulator and wondered if it may be going bad or it is too much for what propane tank to push. Anything would be so helpful thank you so much.