RE: How i make knives/./Come faccio i coltelli eng-ita

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How i make knives/./Come faccio i coltelli eng-ita

in ita •  7 years ago 

Great post. I too trends to get carried away when working and forget to take pictures. I agree that water quenching is nerve wracking but ithink you get used to it after some time. Apart from the risk of warping I have had cracking and one time it cracked all the way through.

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thx. i had some bad exp with water as a quenchant medium xD so i just warm up the oil a bit more and call it a day. was planing on buying some fast oil something like parks 50 but kinda low on budget so will have to wait :D

yeah, with 1085 you should be fine with oil anyways and it does reduce warping quite significantly. I invested in 15 liters of quenching oil some time back but I rarely use it because most of my steel is water-hardening, and it is really hard to get a proper hardness with oil with that steel. I used it for heat-treating some 12c27 sandvik which it is really good for.

ohh yeah, for ss i want to move to aluminium plates and air quench, they say it's good for thin kitchen knives (i use 2.2 or 3 mm stuff) but will see xD