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Versatile Size:At 300x50x3mm, this knife blade blank is sized for a variety of kitchen knife projects. Heat Treatment:With a HRC of 57-59, the blade undergoes rigorous heat treatment for optimal performance. Sandwich Pattern:Features a distinctive spiral texture sandwich pattern, adding a unique...
I decided to do the quenching experiment based on an earlier experience. A knifemaker contacted me about difficulty with heat treating 80CrV2; it wasn’t hardening. We talked through the process and he told me he was coating each blade with ATP-641. I recommended he try it without the ...
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 ave...
If your tempering block is fairly large just let it and the blade both cool together. Tempering temperature varies with the variety of steel. It can be as low as 350°F and as high as 1300°F. Most steels are tempered in the 500 to 600°F range. You really need to find a copy ...
Knife Engineering: Steel, Heat Treating, and geometry, written by Dr. Larrin Thomas. concerning the review, I'm hoping others have read the book and may give their opinion. (I believe it came out in July, so I guess that is a shot in the dark) Quote ...
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 ...
However, a minor segment of the knife blade's orbital movement is cam- actuated so as to follow a segment of an arcuate non-circular (e.g., elliptical) path to form a protruding tab on the film cover so as to allow a consumer to more easily grasp and remove the same. The film is...