02 steel

[hoyer]

Hi everyone

I recently bought me a small bar of 02 (1.2842 or 90MnCrV8) steel. This steel resembles in it's composition on 01 steel and is in Europe often used in damascus. I am a noob in heattreating and knifemaking but I wanna make a monosteel knife out of this bar.
Does anyone know how to heattreat this steel after I made a knife out of it.
Sorry for the (probably) stupid question and my terrible English.

greetings from Belgium

Pedro

 

[mete]

O-2 - Harden 1400-1475 F
Anneal 1375-1425 F
Forge 1800-1925 F
Tempering Range 300-500 F
Check the sticky to understand the conditions concerning high carbon alloys .

 

[hoyer]

Thanks!
I will read all the stickies