work in progress
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Combat Controller
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Re: work in progress
Send it to me when you are done and I will cryo it for you.
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ZeroGravitas
Re: work in progress
CC, I'll probably take you up on the cryo...when I'm using a known oil hardened tool steel instead of a car spring found in a hedgerow (where 5150 is a good guess and all subsequent HT is based on that guess). Thank you!
Update: Survived heat treat in one piece - it's a blade. It's Rockwell 'file skips not digs' hard. Now fittings and handle so it can be a knife.
Post heat treat
Getting cleaned up -edit for better pic
Update: Survived heat treat in one piece - it's a blade. It's Rockwell 'file skips not digs' hard. Now fittings and handle so it can be a knife.
Post heat treat
Getting cleaned up -edit for better pic
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Bullspit
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Re: work in progress
ZeroGravitas wrote:CC, I'll probably take you up on the cryo...when I'm using a known oil hardened tool steel instead of a car spring found in a hedgerow (where 5150 is a good guess and all subsequent HT is based on that guess). Thank you!
Update: Survived heat treat in one piece - it's a blade. It's Rockwell 'file skips not digs' hard. Now fittings and handle so it can be a knife.
Post heat treat
Getting cleaned up
Looking good! It's nice when the steel becomes a blade.
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Dedicated_Dad
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Re: work in progress
Awesome...
For someone not as well educated as I'd like...
So... You cut a length of coil-spring, heated it in the forge and pounded it flat, then shaped/polished/hardened it?
For someone not as well educated as I'd like...
So... You cut a length of coil-spring, heated it in the forge and pounded it flat, then shaped/polished/hardened it?
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ZeroGravitas
Re: work in progress
DD,
That's it, except after getting a flat blank, I forged the knife shape; tang, bevels and the hot cut the top of the blade to make the point. My forging's still very poor, so I have to grind a lot. One of my books quotes: 10 minutes at the forge = 30 minutes at the grinder. So the closer to final on the anvil the better.
That's it, except after getting a flat blank, I forged the knife shape; tang, bevels and the hot cut the top of the blade to make the point. My forging's still very poor, so I have to grind a lot. One of my books quotes: 10 minutes at the forge = 30 minutes at the grinder. So the closer to final on the anvil the better.