[modeleng] Re: Any knife makers on the list?
- From: "Clif Walker" <clif.gwr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 09:40:26 +0100
Hi Tel and All,
Now I bet you are going to give us the recipe for Witchetty Grub Black
Pudding.
Regards
Clif
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Lane" <tel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 6:37 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Any knife makers on the list?
>
> Well now I have to disagree on this a bit. Ideally a knife blade should
> NOT
> be evenly tempered. It should be hard at the edge & get progressively
> softer
> toward the back (spine) of the blade. Also the tang should be considerably
> softer than the main blade. This will increase the toughness and
> durability
> of the blade & lessen the tendency for it to snap off first time you try
> to
> dig a witchetty grub outta a black wattle tree trunk.
>
>
>> 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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>> > http://www.kinvermes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/p1.htm
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx =
>> > [mailto:modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> > On Behalf Of Terry Lane
>> > Sent: 30 April 2005 22:04
>> > To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > 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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