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I am ready for the next step in feathered Ws which is splitting the billet. Should I cut it 90 degrees of my last stack. I believe I should but don’t want to be wrong. There has been a lot of work to this step and I don’t want to screw it up now thanks

Thanks guys

thanks guys I found a stainless steel coffee warmer about 12" tall that I can suspend several knives with out touching. Hoping this works.

I mean to cook the solution in

Can PVC be used for a container to hold manganese phosphate parkerIzing solution? it certainly would be easier to obtain than stainless steel or porcelon containers. Thanks

There are 2 blades .085 and 2 blades .125. There is a 4.25" piece of 1084 handle welded to a 15n20 - 1084 Damascus blade. I'm taking the reading half way of the welded piece of 1048 handle

Do you know if I should temper and what temp?

Ok I'm the one that started the thread and have an up date. I applied ATP 461 to each blade,3 coats. I re hardened the blades to 1550 and had the quench very close maybe one and a half seconds from oven to quench. Cooled and retested 3 of the 4 read 57 to 58 RC the other read 53RC for some...

do you use anything for scale forming on your blades?

Ed what do use use to heat up your quenchant?

so Ed you do not wrap your blades and just deal with the scale. I am really learning from this thread. It does seem that every time I enter the shop I learn something. I'll keep you informed on the project. I hope this forum stays around awhile, I'll need it. I walked 20ft. To quench outside...

This thread is a continuance of thread Damascus won't temper. The steel is 15n20 and 1084 quenched in hydraulic fluid

I sorry for last evening on the RC machine. It right on the mark so I wrapped a blade in 309 ss like yesterday heated it up to 1500 degrees soaked for 10 mins., took it out and got it out of the ss wrap and cooled it in fluid. I gave it a test 34 RC. I'm sure it took a min. to unwrap before I...

Yes the steel was clean, sanded to 800

Well you guys were right, it was my tester or should I say the one using the tester. I forgot to do the last procedure to get a reading, release the load. The tester is reading with the test bar and the blades are reading in the high 20s. Does that sound right with what they have gone thru? Will...