1084 and interesting (to me) quench line

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1084 and birdseye maple from boards my grandfather had in his woodworking shop.
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I just held the edge in the oil during HT and it has this interesting band type quench line.

CA finish on the handle.
 
That is pretty nice, did you clay it, edge quench or a combination to get the two lines?
 
Okay...CA finish, but did you stabilize the wood too? Do people do CA finishes on stabilized wood? I have been very happy with my tru oil finishes that I started recently, but I am always interested in new stuff too.
 
I just did a knife and eneded up with that same quench line, I thought it looked a bit different too than what we normally see.
 
Thanks. Yeah I'm going to try to see if I can freehand some wider bands. Just for fun. I'll post if I'm successful.
 
Tai Goo was playing around with hamons like that a few years ago and was able to get beautiful rainbow banding. I don't recall the specific alloy, but it would have been a simple carbon steel. He played around with slowly easing the blade into the oil after initially plunging in just the edge, no clay.

Definitely an avenue to pursue if it interests you.
 
Randydb said:
Okay...CA finish, but did you stabilize the wood too? Do people do CA finishes on stabilized wood? I have been very happy with my tru oil finishes that I started recently, but I am always interested in new stuff too.
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This maple was not stabilized. I have some really thin CA and I could see it wick through the wood when I looked at the front part of the scales. It actually penetrated all through the front part of the scales at least. Maybe 1/8 of an inch or so. Might be a bit less.

But actually stabilized wood I would think that you would not have much to gain from doing the CA finish. That being said, I had read that the scales are still water permeable at some level. I believe Stacy said drop a piece of stabilized wood in a bucket of water, take it out and dry it off and later on you will have a puddle of water on your counter. So if there is enough room for water to flow through the piece (which is different than it having the ability to swell the fibers and dimensionally change the piece like unstabilized birch or something.) then there might be enough divots and pores to benefit from the CA finish.

So personally I have a couple of blades that I am going to use stabilized wood on and if they don't end up with the same glass finish I'm going to try the CA thing on them and see if it changes. For the most part I would think the answer will be that it is unnecessary.
 
Maelstrom78 said:
1084 and birdseye maple from boards my grandfather had in his woodworking shop.
ebd0jr.jpg
I just held the edge in the oil during HT and it has this interesting band type quench line.

CA finish on the handle.
Click to expand...

O yah! Man after my own heart! Hardening lines are awesome aren't they? :D nice transition zone! 1095 does really cool stuff to....and 52100 if you take care of it
 
Thanks man. I have some 52100 and W2 to mess around with once my oven is done so that will be fun too!
 
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