Recent content by MikeS

Good morning to everyone. I need a little help please. I have been looking for old thread to study and to say the least I have not found it. My question is simple. How to do a “snap temper”.i have a run of 15-20 hunters and I want to snap temper them so that my regular heat treating oven can...

Good evening everyone. I need a few tips or ideas please. I have been advised to have an electronic device implanted for sleep apnea. The device is called “Inspire”. The question is the pamphlet states that I should not weld with this device. I mig weld my Damascus billets. I thought of gas...

Sorry guys for being tardy responding. I have had a family illness to deal with. ‘thanks for the input I’ll check out Black bear forge and maybe Ed if he has time.

Good morning everyone. i have a gee-whiz question(s) today. Any thoughts or pointers on using an induction heater like a US SOLID inductionn heater for forging blades. I understand I would need to make custom coils and put a tig cooler to it. Has anyone used one of these devices? Lastly would I...

Thanks for the suggestion. I’m going home and try it. I’m on the road at the moment

Oops sorry. Thank you to everyone responding and trying to help me. It’s is appreciated at this end

A thought should I normalize the blade and try to heat afterwards? Would that help the blade to harden?

I’m not sure but I think I got the steel from New Jersey Steel Baron. As far as grinding down — didn’t really measure maybe .005“ guessing

Hello to everyone, my question is my blades after quench is approx 40 C Rockwell scale, and file bites the steel. 1. Steel is pattern welded 15N20 and 1075 at approx 275 layers, ( my first fully successful billet) 2 blade is .155 in the spine 3. I’m using parks 50 4. evenheat oven at 1500...

Spoke with Jim in tech support. Very helpful and just a nice guy to talk with

Kevin, snap tempering I've heard the term but this first time I've had a explanation of it Thanks Mike

Thanks for all the input. I got curious and I called Evenheat and spoke with Tech support and I asked if opening the door and let the oven cool would damage it. Here is what they said: It would not damage the oven, but they recommended that let it cool to 800 degrees with the door half open...

Good morning guys, I have another very simple question this morning. I am trying figure out my tempering routine. I currently am using my wife's oven with an out board thermometer( digital ) from thermo works. the thermometer works well. The problem is the temp in the oven swing as much as 50...

Nice anvil I have one and just love it, Mine is 75KG or 165 lbs. It just works well and it really moves steel.

Ed, good idea, I see your point Mike