Considering HT slips with blades.

JTknives

JTknives

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We are trying out a new system with blades that we heat treat where the customer has selected NA under hardness. When thy select NA we look over the blade and alloy and make a best guess on what we think it should be. My thought was to give them enough info that thy could do a simple temper if the blade is to hard for their taste. We have sent a few of these tags out with blades. The tags have the hardness and what temper temp we used to get this and a spot where we sign or initial.

What’s your thoughts on this. Is this something others would like or is it a waste of time.
 
Seems like a good option to me. They may not do anything with it, but it still shows you're going the extra mile, and it really doesn't cost you anything extra but a few seconds of your time and a very small cost for the sticker, tag, paper, or whatevever.
 
We do our very best to hit the hardness you select on the website but I know we get a ton of NA for hardness. I’m guessing this is because thy really don’t know what it should be or what thy want yet. I know if I was getting a blade heat treated I would see the note as a special gift that shows that thy really do care.
 
I like it. One of the things I always appreciate about my current HT provider is the hand written note that is usually enclosed when something I had requested was either experimental, not attainable or had to be modified. Shows that they care, even about a hobbyist like me.
 
An option might be to give the customer a selection of appropriate hardness's for the alloy that they could chose from.
 
robwil said:
An option might be to give the customer a selection of appropriate hardness's for the alloy that they could chose from.
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Thy have this option, thy can select any hardness from 50rc to 63rc. The issue is that the correct hardness is determined by blade profile, geometry and use not just steel. Just about any steel can do just about any task in any profile depending on the hardness selected. So having a set couple of hardness chooses for each steel would be very problematic.
 
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