Color case hardening

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Bradleyrj

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Hey fellas, Im into guns as much as I am knives but lets face it, theres a little more work that would go into building a custom gun from scratch so I'll stick to learning the knife craft and buying my guns. BUT I see a lot of work coming from some of the gun folks with color case hardening. I very rarely see this on knife works but think its just superb looking. Turnbull Manufacturing just advertised on their facebook page a color case hardened blade. Just wondering if this is NOT an approved practice? OR just not done that often for what ever reason.
 
Nevermind... I was doing some searching and found a few old threads linked here that explained it.

Sorry to waste the bandwidth
 
I have a rifle color cased by Turnbull -- it's gorgeous !!! If anyone can do it Turnbull can.
 
Believe the temps required to get that coloring are above most Tempering temps IE ruins a HT
 
Hankins said:
Believe the temps required to get that coloring are above most Tempering temps IE ruins a HT
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Doesn't matter anyway, since use will ruin the colors, too. Most knives in this group are display pieces. I know big time makers who didn't even HT blades they do such treatments to.
 
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