Suggestions for forging

[DennisRoy]

Hi all,
Hope everyone's doing good. I am looking forward to getting advice and suggestions on forging. I am thinking to make my own knives. I am not sure about setting up own forging. I have been collecting information on the same from the web, but I guess those are just not complete. I am looking for more. My friend suggested me on the heat treatment. But just wanted to get clarification on something. What are the different heat treatments available and which one will be the best one for small forging?

 

[dan.brown]

Heat treatment can be done in a number of ways. You can heat your piece and plunge it in oil, or you can heat allow to cool down slowly, do this a number of times 2-3 this is annealing. The final step is to heat your piece and plunge it into oil. Try to avoid water as you may crack the piece.

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[Jlbc212]

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[MoonRise]

Heat treatment of steel is 'simple'.

- heat the steel

- quench the steel ('rapidly' cool the steel )

- optionally, heat the steel 'mildly' to make it a little softer but less brittle. This is called "tempering".

However, it's the fine details about those steps that matter.

And the details about those steps depend on the EXACT steel alloy that you are dealing with.



Some steels you quench in oil, some in water or brine, some steels quench in AIR!

Quench a steel that is supposed to use oil but you used water, and there is a good chance that the steel will crack or shatter during the quench. Quench a steel that should be done in water but you used oil and the steel will probably not be as hard as it could/should be.

 

[DennisRoy]

Thanks Mate.

 

[DennisRoy]

Yeah I will Check It out mate.