Can I texture heat-treated D-2?

Chiro75

Chiro75

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One of the MadPoet custom blades I had made warped during the heat treating process, and while it is being replaced Mel told me to go ahead and experiment with the warped one. It is heat treated D-2, probably about 61 in hardness. Is there a way I can add texture to the spine and maybe the flats ala Sean Perkins Kerver? What would I use as far as the tools?
 
Chiro75

At this point you are pretty well limited to what you can do with grinders.

A narrow abrasive wheel mounted in a dremmel could be used to imitate filework and a mounted abrasive point could be udes to texture flat surfaces. Both would be difficult to control precisely but it is a scrap blade anyhow so why not try it?

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george
 
I was thinking more like a hammer-pounded finish. Basically like what Sean Perkins uses on his knives...
 
I am afraid that hammering is out of the question at this point, at 62 the metal is just too hard.

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george

 
Yep. Just found that out (ears still ringing!). I wailed on that mother with a hammer as hard as I could, then went at it with a chisel, too, but all it did was burnish the surface a bit! WAY too hard to even think about texturing! Oh well...
 
Looking at my Seraph, it looks like the texture was ground into the blade, as apposed to hammered on. If you really want that hammer texture, I'd suggest trying to get a simple carbon steel blade, and hammer while it's hot, but before hardening. You should be able to get a pretty good texture without too much work.
Aaron

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I like my women like I like my knives: strong, sharp, well-formed and pattern-welded!
 
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