Josh Rider
Stuff maker
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A coworker wanted me to make a knife for him. He asked me to make anything I wanted to make.
I used this as an opportunity to try some new things. I had some extra 3/16 1084 so I profiled it as usual, grinded it as usual on the kmg and heat treated it as I have other knives in a propane forge at least a shade beyond non magnetic and quenched in preheated canola oil. Checked it with a file which skated over the blade no problem.
Tempered at 375 for one hour x 2
(Where i think i went wrong)
The blade is a chisel ground (right handed) tanto style. The bevel was brought down to almost zero then hand sanded to 600. I havent sharpened it yet but it was relatively sharp after the hand sanding.
Well, i tried to test the edge using it to chop some soft wood and there were a couple of chips on the edge.
Should I re-temper or do i need to start the heat treat over from the beginning?
I used this as an opportunity to try some new things. I had some extra 3/16 1084 so I profiled it as usual, grinded it as usual on the kmg and heat treated it as I have other knives in a propane forge at least a shade beyond non magnetic and quenched in preheated canola oil. Checked it with a file which skated over the blade no problem.
Tempered at 375 for one hour x 2
(Where i think i went wrong)
The blade is a chisel ground (right handed) tanto style. The bevel was brought down to almost zero then hand sanded to 600. I havent sharpened it yet but it was relatively sharp after the hand sanding.
Well, i tried to test the edge using it to chop some soft wood and there were a couple of chips on the edge.
Should I re-temper or do i need to start the heat treat over from the beginning?
