Bending blades?

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F. Allin Kahrl

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I'm making some knives and other tools that have curves and other transverse bends in them, like a farrier's hoof knife. What's the best way to put those bends in? I intend to grind them to shape like normal blades and bend them - no need for forging. Or is there? Or can I just bend the steel (cold-rolled annealed 1095 at this point) cold, before heat treat?

I'd rather not have to normalize/stress relieve if possible. I'm still austenitizing with torches and tempering in a toaster oven most of the time. I have to use the furnace at work if I want to do high temp soaking, and I try to avoid that if I can.

Thanks.

-Allin
 
Allin, If you use annealed steel you can grind, bend to shape and then heat treat. If you do forge them to shape you will need to do the thermal normalizing cycles. 1095 annealed steel is a joy to use, It should bend cold.
 
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