MilwaukeeJon Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Glenn (GSTongs) talks about the benefit of heat treating his 1045 hammers heads twice in water to achieve the desired hardness. I’ve done this several times now as well and it does seem to yield harder faces/peens. I’d be interested to hear what others here have to say about this approach. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou L Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Glen has some unorthodox approaches to heat treating that work for him because he has been experimenting with it for years. I envy his efficiency and precision but I don’t think I’d ever try his quick dunk in water heat treating style. He does it because he is on the balcony of an apartment in a city. I don’t think he wants to play around with flaming oil. The video of the double quenched hammer was quite convincing and I’m certain I would ruin a number of tools trying it before I got the timing right. I don’t think it would work at all on thinner tools or a knife. Post a link to it for the curmudgeons...they would be interested to see his results I think. Then again, some of them have probably already used the same technique... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 A rather classical method in shops that specialized in hammers was two jets of water one for each face. This prevented the eye from getting as hard. Smaller shops often placed one face in a shallow pan and drilled water from the dipper used for fire management Largish size chunks of acre and shafting (6040) generally handle water quench well and need just the slightest temper to even out the edge hardness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hephaestus Smith Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 I read it in an old blacksmith book, it worked pretty well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Now I have to go pee... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hephaestus Smith Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 On 24 January 2018 at 4:22 PM, Charles R. Stevens said: Now I have to go pee... I suppose you could, but it could be tricky holding the stream long enough to get a proper heat treat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 As you get older you will see that is not so much of a problem... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Having it strong enough to push through the Leidenfrost effect then becomes the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 That is the crux of the problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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