[modeleng] Re: Any knife makers on the list?

I seriously doubt if you could get a good temper in a kitchen oven Al.

I generally heat the tang with a torch & watch the colours run. You could
also try laying it in a shallow tray of tallow and burning the tallow off

> If there are, I need some advice.  Someone posted on a
> list sometime in the past about "Drawing the temper"
> of a knife blade after hardening it by baking it in
> his wife's Kitchen oven.  Problem is, I forgot to make
> a note of the temperature or the length of time which
> it was baked.  Can any of you help out?
>
> Al Messer
>
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