[modeleng] Re: Any knife makers on the list?
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:25:16 -0700 (PDT)
At what temperature and length of time should it be
baked in its bed of Sand?
Al
--- Pendragon <idpriest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Al,
>
> It is important to temper the blade in a unifom way,
> one way this can be
> achieved is by placing the article in a tray of sand
> and then heating in =
> the
> domestic oven [it follows to do this when Erine is
> out having some =
> retail
> therapy]by heating in this way temperature gradients
> are avoided thus
> providing an even temperature.......you could do
> this whilst cooking the
> Sunday roast........what is important is to control
> the rate of
> heating....'food' for thought perhaps.
>
> Regards, IP
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> On Behalf Of Terry Lane
> Sent: 30 April 2005 22:04
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> Subject: [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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