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I keep having the urge to work on this (I need another hobby like I need a hole in the head) but probably want to focus on some lesser things before I get to the smithing aspect. Is it reasonable to do stock removal and heat treat of something like O-1? For some reason, one of the things I want to play around with is the heat-treat side of things plus obviously the shaping.
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mattwhoo posted:What type of equipment do you have for heat treating? That's really going to be the determining factor in the types of steel you can start with. Well, I don't currently have specific heat treating equipment but I homebuilt an oilburning aluminum foundry out of a hot water heater and have a kiln kicking around with a PID controller already. I was thinking on the order of doing propane powered heater with some solenoid valves to keep a salt pot at temperature, something cheap and easy. O-1 was picked as a for-example, as the local metal supplier stocks it. It sounds weird, but with all the other hobby stuff going on, I just don't want to get deep enough into bladesmithing that I go and make a tire hammer because I'm not sure where I'd put it.
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Mar 4, 2017 03:42
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Sorry, it was more a question of stock removal producing a useful/good blade vs smithing and forging.
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Mar 4, 2017 23:51
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