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Ok I just forged up this billet for the seax project I'm working on and I got somthing funky going on in the middle. Here is the brake down of the construction of the billet.
I used 15n20 and high carbon strips and stacked into a billet. Welded and drew it out, hot cut folded and rewalded. Then drew it out agian and cut in half with the abrasive saw. Next I cut off a chunk of starret O1 square bar and drew that out to the needed thickness. Cut the ends off to make it the same length as the 2 other billets. I have some thing about having a forge weld right at the edge. No proof that it's a problem but I like a solid core. So anyway I heated each seperate billet just enoug to melt some flux. Covered the surfaces with flux and stacked hot and popped in the vise and wire it up. back into the forge and more flux once hot. once flux was boiling and billet was hot out into the press. Kept doing this till it was all welded and then drew it out and shaped my billet. Then I cut off the ends with the abrasive saw as thy are always a little wonky. Grabbed the chunk and sanded and gave it an acid etch and WTH is that little line in the core. So I grab my 30x mag and it looks like a crack but in the O1 in a direction that I can't seem to figure out. I cleaned up the billet and quick etched and don't see it but now I'm concerned with how it got there, what it is and is it in the rest of the billet.
I used 15n20 and high carbon strips and stacked into a billet. Welded and drew it out, hot cut folded and rewalded. Then drew it out agian and cut in half with the abrasive saw. Next I cut off a chunk of starret O1 square bar and drew that out to the needed thickness. Cut the ends off to make it the same length as the 2 other billets. I have some thing about having a forge weld right at the edge. No proof that it's a problem but I like a solid core. So anyway I heated each seperate billet just enoug to melt some flux. Covered the surfaces with flux and stacked hot and popped in the vise and wire it up. back into the forge and more flux once hot. once flux was boiling and billet was hot out into the press. Kept doing this till it was all welded and then drew it out and shaped my billet. Then I cut off the ends with the abrasive saw as thy are always a little wonky. Grabbed the chunk and sanded and gave it an acid etch and WTH is that little line in the core. So I grab my 30x mag and it looks like a crack but in the O1 in a direction that I can't seem to figure out. I cleaned up the billet and quick etched and don't see it but now I'm concerned with how it got there, what it is and is it in the rest of the billet.
