clay temper

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Jonesy

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Question,

What type of clay is used for the clay temper process.
I was also curious about the steps to take to get a nice clay temper line, Ie. temp, time etc. I use 1095 and 5160 steels all stock removal . Thanks for the help.

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Scott Jones
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I did a writeup on clay heat treating on my site. Ravenclaw had a better one, but I can't seem to track it down now. My page on that subject is http://www.freespeech.org/oz/projects4.htm
The clay we use is actually a type of modeling clay (the kind that needs to be fired to harden properly) mixed with crushed limestone or sand and crushed charcoal.
I hope it helps.

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Oz

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[This message has been edited by Osbourn (edited 04-17-2000).]
 
I use satanite for my clay but it is getting harder to find. I coat the blade with a very thin coat first, let it dry, and then use a thicker coat and create the pattern. The thicker coat is about 1/8 inch thick and only covers the upper 2/3rds of the blade (or there abouts).

Here is a URL from Don Fogg's web site on water quenching by Randal Graham: http://www.dfoggknives.com/waterhardening.htm
Hopefully this will help,
Ravenclaw
 
I talked to a guy this weekend that uses ceramic slip to clay forge. He mixes carbon and something else in tothe slip.
 
Thanks for the input. I always appreciate getting info from the most resourceful people in the trade.
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Jonesy,

There's some ink to back up Craig Blankenship's method with the furnace repair cement. There was an article in the March '96 Blade magazine called "How To Heat Treat AND Get an Attractive Temper Line" by Jerry Fisk. Combines the technique with martempering.

I could be persuaded to scan it... Only 3 pages...

Glen AKA Centaur

[This message has been edited by Centaur (edited 04-18-2000).]
 
Thanks for the direction.

Centaur,
I will go thru my stacks of magazines and see if I can find it as I probably have it but couldn't remember it.

This leads me to another question, How do you recall those articles from 1996 blade. Do you have a file of all the articles from your library or just one heck of a memory. Maybe this should be a new topic???
Maybe there is a master file out there floating around we could keep updated???

Thanks
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Jonesy,

Chalk it up to one evening with nothing better to do. I went through all my Knives Illustrated & Blade mags, and made a list of all interesting (to me) articles. I just happened to remember the furnace cement technique & looked it up. It's in Excel format.



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Glen AKA Centaur
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