Jericoh
Well-Known Member
Seriously, I'm about to wig right out. I have a piece of 3/8" 1095, ground out and then I heat treated it. It warped. A nice gentle curve from tip to skullcrusher. So I tried the trick posted here and clamped it to another piece of 3/8" steel, with a penny at the apex of the curve, it was straight in the clamps, and then tempered it. Took the clamps off and poof, still curvy. So I annealed it and then did the clamp trick again, still a boomerang.
So then I heated it up to about 1300 degrees, put it in the vise with a flat wrench at the apex and 2 flat wrenches on the other side as far forward and aft as I could space them, cranked the thing down until it was curved the other direction. Let it cool, unvised it, and bang, curved right back to the other side.
I'm seriously considering propping the thing up with a couple scraps of steel at the tip and the skullcrusher and parking the tire of my Expedition on it. Anyone else have any other ideas before I find my car keys?
So then I heated it up to about 1300 degrees, put it in the vise with a flat wrench at the apex and 2 flat wrenches on the other side as far forward and aft as I could space them, cranked the thing down until it was curved the other direction. Let it cool, unvised it, and bang, curved right back to the other side.
I'm seriously considering propping the thing up with a couple scraps of steel at the tip and the skullcrusher and parking the tire of my Expedition on it. Anyone else have any other ideas before I find my car keys?