Advice on heat treating a few different steels

Josh Rider

Josh Rider

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I have a batch of about 10 blades ready for heat treat but they're different steel.

6 are AebL
4 are cpm-154

Would you guys recommend grinding a few more out for Peter's 20 blade prices or is this irrelevant since they're different steels?

Thanks for any help.
 
You can call Brad and ask him, but I believe they will all be done at one price. I would make a few more to get the most from the batch.
 
I thought each different steel "resets" the price. I could be wrong though. Please report back with what Brad says, I'd be really interested for myself since I send my knives to them too.
 
Re: Peter's heat treat

Ok Brad was gone for the day, but I spoke to another gentleman that answered the question.
Pricing has been posted here before, but just to refresh:
1-3 blades are $28.50 per blade
4-20 same or similar steel $114
$2.75 each blade over 20

He told me AebL, cpm-154, and ats34 would be run in the same lot. Looks like this is going to be the way I go.

Thanks for your help!
 
Awesome, thanks for checking! So it sounds like quite a few stainless would be the same price but adding a carbon steel in would restart it at $28.50.
 
I called yesterday and got a complete different answer. I had 10 aeb-l blades I was going to send. 5 hunting I wanted around 60 rc and 5 kitchen I wanted at 62. She told me they would be two seperate lots because of the different temper. Guess it depends on who you talk to.

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josh81 said:
I called yesterday and got a complete different answer. I had 10 aeb-l blades I was going to send. 5 hunting I wanted around 60 rc and 5 kitchen I wanted at 62. She told me they would be two seperate lots because of the different temper. Guess it depends on who you talk to.

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It could be just the tempering that matters. If they can put them all in the same tempering oven then they would save money. What do I know about industrial heat treating though!? :p
 
josh81 said:
I called yesterday and got a complete different answer. I had 10 aeb-l blades I was going to send. 5 hunting I wanted around 60 rc and 5 kitchen I wanted at 62. She told me they would be two seperate lots because of the different temper. Guess it depends on who you talk to.

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You may want to call them back because this is incorrect.
I just called and spoke with a woman who confirmed what the gentleman told me the other day.
Then she passed me on to Brad who also told me the temper doesn't change the price.

You get to choose the final hardness desired.

For instance I am sending them 6 aeb-l, 4 cpm-154, and 10 ats-34. All are air hardening steels and can be treated together. The final hardness desired will be different when they temper them at different temperatures, but the price will be the same.
 
As I said, the stainless steels will all be "similar steels".

Agreed with Josh, the temper doesn't matter. I suppose if you sent 20 blades and wanted 20 different temper requests, you might have an issue, but there is almost always a few different targets in each batch, and the price is still a bulk charge.
 
Ya I should have talked to someone else. They are in the mail to a different company now but I guess I'll know for next time.

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Just a quick update. I just got told from the other company that they are charging me another 85 dollars for the different tempering. That brings me up to 235 bucks for 10 blades. I'm not very happy at the moment. Moral of the story I guess is send them to Peter's regardless.

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