Bear Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 I havent worked with stailess steel yet. How is it to forge? how well does it hold an edge(chipping breaking etc...)?Useful for tools? Sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian C. Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 I forged some steak turners out of 3/8" sq. stainless last fall. It was harder than the preverbial woodpeckers lips. Made for a lot of hard & heavy hammering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Which stainless steel? There are a bunch of alloys ranging from soft and gooey to hard and brittle and they work differently. Tell us the alloy and we'll speculate on it's use. In general stainless is harder to work than plain carbon steel and my require special heat treat/passivation to make it stainless again after forging. 303 is quite different from 440C. Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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