I'm going into more professional knife making and I'm wondering what an easy to work with blade steel I should use. I was considering using a high carbon steel or buying a few pieces of 440c. Also does anyone know of a supplier of steel that sells them by the piece. Also a company that will heat treat knives for people. All help is appreciated. Thank you and enjoy your day.
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Easy to work blade steel?
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Google and the search engine here are your friend. These are topics that have been discussed a ton and are easily searchable
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From what I hear, 440C is a bit touchy as far as overheating during finishing, I guess it has a pretty low tempering point. My gut says stay away.
The search function on this forum is quite good, and I would say there are probably in the hundreds of threads addressing this exact question.
When I first got interested in knifemaking, I spent months reading here and barely skimmed the surface. The best thing about using the search function is that you typically learn all kinds of things you didn't intend to learn, while you search for the answer to your specific question.
The search function on this forum is quite good, and I would say there are probably in the hundreds of threads addressing this exact question.
When I first got interested in knifemaking, I spent months reading here and barely skimmed the surface. The best thing about using the search function is that you typically learn all kinds of things you didn't intend to learn, while you search for the answer to your specific question.
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I have found that this search works better than the one one here
https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=011197018607028182644:qfobr3dlcra
But to answer your questions I would say 1084 and1080 would be good easy to work steels especially if you want to heat treat it yourself.
Buying small single knife size pieces of steel can be done at Jantz ,Texas knife supply or even ebay. 1084 is pretty cheap so you can buy a 3-4' bar of it for around 25 bucks
Sending out for heat treat, you can try Peter's heat treat or if you are only wanting to HT one or two knives try posting in the service wanted thread and maybe a knife maker on BF would be willing to do the HT. I hope this helps and I wish you much success making your knife.
https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=011197018607028182644:qfobr3dlcra
But to answer your questions I would say 1084 and1080 would be good easy to work steels especially if you want to heat treat it yourself.
Buying small single knife size pieces of steel can be done at Jantz ,Texas knife supply or even ebay. 1084 is pretty cheap so you can buy a 3-4' bar of it for around 25 bucks
Sending out for heat treat, you can try Peter's heat treat or if you are only wanting to HT one or two knives try posting in the service wanted thread and maybe a knife maker on BF would be willing to do the HT. I hope this helps and I wish you much success making your knife.
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