[modeleng] Re: Any knife makers on the list?
- From: "Charles & Dorothy Brumbelow" <cbrumbelow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 21:46:43 -0500
Not OT if the knife is a model to a newly engineered design, Jesse... As
for tempering steel in an oven, I've wondered if the "clean" cycle of a self
cleaning oven would be good for annealing or normalizing steel or possibly
taking the hard places out of an iron casting. I think it gets to 800
degrees Fahrenheit or so... Charles
> Al,
>
> Pay no attention to that yahoo down in Oz. All you have to do is to place
> the knife blade on a piece of heavy metal (1/4" or thicker, this is to
> sort
> of moderate the heat.) and heat the metal until the proper colour shows on
> the polished blade. You prolly need almost a dark purple colour to get a
> good tough blade from carbon steel. The nearer straw colour you are, the
> harder but more brittle the blade will be.
>
> BTW: Did you realize that this matter is OT?????
>
> Jesse
> : [modeleng] Re: Any knife makers on the list?
>
>
>> I seriously doubt if you could get a good temper in a kitchen oven Al.
>
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