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Paul Bos, widely recognized as America's foremost heat treat authority for knife blades, got an early start learning the importance of proper heat treat. He was a 9th grader, making a set of 16 cold chisels in metal shop. When he plunged them into water to cool them off, they shattered...
If you are a small-batch, custom knifemaker, we'd be honored to work with you. We offer a variety of services to prep your blades, including our world-famous Paul Bos Heat Treat. Blade Prep Services Steel Heat Treatment: Pricing below is per steel type, for blades up to 10", and i...
The present invention relates to cutting tool heat treating method and the edge WC heat treatment method aims at simplifying production process, shorting production period, lowering production cost, raising the hardness and wear resistance of cutting tool and prolonging the service life. The cutting ...
can have toughness as high as 1084/80CrV2 at similar hardness with the added benefit of more carbide for higher wear resistance. So with this type of forge heat treating the steel selection is very important for the type of knife that will be used, without being able to rely as much on...
The book is also broken up into digestible chunks. There are four major sections: 1) Steel and Knife Properties, 2) Knife Steels and their Metallurgy, 3) Processing and Heat Treating Steel, and 4) Knife Making. Each section has 5-10 chapters in it for a total of 29, each chapter a...
of abuse. Prime candidates would be a bowie or camp knife which might be used for chopping up firewood, clearing a path through the woods, etc. This is also good for thinner blades that require quite a bit of flexibility. Some knifemakers do differential heat treating on all their blades....
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For such compositions, parts thicker than a knife blade cannot be cooled fast enough to miss the TTT curve, which is shifted far to the left. At higher carbon levels, however, both the hardness of the martensite and the ease with which it forms increase. Other common alloying elements in ...
Pop’s Knife Supplycontacted me about doing a set of experiments on their 8670 steel. We talked about different heat treating variables we might test andJoey Berryof Pop’s heat treated and ground the coupons. I measured the hardness and toughness of each condition and I am providing the ana...