rabunsmith
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Usually, I just forge ordinary steel, and play with jewelry stuff. I had bought a flat of CPM154 at the Blade Show, just having heard this is the ultimate stainless knife steel. I made four good looking fixed blades. However, I have no access to a temperature controlled furnace. So, I did the ignorant and heretic approach to heat treating. Used the rose bud torch and heated the blade to light orange and plunged it in old vegetable oil. No cryo heat treat, just overnight in a 0 degree F freezer. I had forged it to shape and ground and polished it. Now I plan on keeping it for an hour at 400 deg. F. for what passes as tempering.
Will this get me into knife purgatory? Really, I know there will be lacking austenite, but can anyone predict what flaws the knife will likely have?
Will this get me into knife purgatory? Really, I know there will be lacking austenite, but can anyone predict what flaws the knife will likely have?