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Pattern Weld NOT KNIFE Question


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I'd like to try my hand at some pattern welded steel.  Nothing fancy or overly strange (yet!), just a couple of chunks of file/bandsaw blade/scrap, just to see if I can do it.  I don't intend to use it for a blade, maybe some crosses or pendants or something.  My question is, if I'm not using it for a blade, I don't need to heat treat it, right?  Does the heat treat have any affect on the "visualness" of the pattern, or is that all in the steel types and etch?

Thanks!

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9 minutes ago, Chris Comtois said:

My question is, if I'm not using it for a blade, I don't need to heat treat it, right?

If strength is not otherwise an issue, then no, you don't.

9 minutes ago, Chris Comtois said:

Does the heat treat have any affect on the "visualness" of the pattern, or is that all in the steel types and etch?

My understanding (and I am WAY outside of my knowledge base, here) is that hardening can have an effect (such as one finds in a hamon), but that it depends on the alloy. I really don't know, though, and I'm more than ready to be corrected on this.

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