Baron's W-2 email and problems

Aldo... you're a stud. :thumbup:
Back in my consulting days, my old boss shared the following piece of wisdom with me... "customers don't remembers the problems near as much as they remember how you dealt with them." Service... that's what'll keep us coming back to the Steel Baron.
 
Damn Guy's, I should screw up more often! :rolleyes:Thank you all. I just spoke to Brad at Peter's HT. He's real busy with Blade coming up. He said that when I get back that he should have all the results for the oil quench. Sorry if you're all on the edge of your seats for the results. Brad has been heat treating our steels for years. His methods, of course, are geared to industry but he loves being a part of the Knife Making Community. Besides, I told him I would drive out there with a bottle of 18 year old Scotch if he comes up with the answer. :)
 
Hey Aldo I order several bars of W2 on march 20 of 5/16 from you. Have you heard anything about that. I had one that didn't harden but that was my fault as I dropped it going from the oven to oil and took to long before quenching. Recycled the thermo process and did it again and that time it only hardened to only 50 and no hamon. I'm clearly at fault for the bad heat treat when I dropped the blade, but was going to forge another blade today and start over until I saw this post today.
 
As others have said, it's not the problems you have it's how you handle them. Aldo is a class act and he really cares about the knife making community. He will make it right. Don't stress out Aldo. We're still behind you.
 
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Just wanted to update this thread on the W-2 steel. I eventually got around to heat treating this blade, from the recent 1/8" stuff discussed previously. Stock removal.... I had this thing soaking for about 5 minutes at around 1475, and I quenched in brine, 1 hour at 350 with a water quench, and then another hour air cool. First time quenching in H20/brine.....and it was awesome! A tad more violent than oil for sure. I had clayed this knife, and the hamon is quite distinct, but there are dark spots below the hamon line, that shouldn't be there....consistent with the problems experienced by others and documented in another forum. While the edge is definitely hard, there is an area on the edge affected by these spots, and definitely nothing a knifemaker would sell, or hardly give away. I'm sure a polish will polish these spots out, but they seem to be clear indications of areas affected by variations in carbon content, I suppose. I'm going to give this thing a rough polish, put a paracord wrap on it, and use it. Should be OK for me.
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Just wanted to verify for myself, and anyone else out there, there are indeed problems with this steel. I have to say though........the Baron made this right by me.......replacing a bar of bad W-2 with two bars of 1084.
 
I'm pretty sure Aldo will always be my source. You can't beat the service.

I only have one bar of Aldo's 5160.

My only problem is that it does not magically shape it's self into sweet blades and heat treat it's self!
 
Aldo is the man. I had the same experience. He replaced my two bars of W2 with four of 1084. Aldo put me down for some more W2 in the fall when ya get it.
 
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