Every just watch a blade cool

Mark Williams

Mark Williams

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Watching a blade cool down in the sole light of a glowing forge ........

The transformation is quite a vivid and exotic light show.

My favorite part is when the magnetic field plays on the steel. It makes the color dance around like you would observe in the cuttle fish.

That is all.
 
Mark, you keep that up yer gonna end up mystical or sumpin! :)
 
Mark Williams said:
Watching a blade cool down in the sole light of a glowing forge ........

The transformation is quite a vivid and exotic light show.

My favorite part is when the magnetic field plays on the steel. It makes the color dance around like you would observe in the cuttle fish.

That is all.
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Too late! Can't quench now.....haha
 
You dont get the full effect unless you read my post in a kung fo kinda voice :)

It is fun to watch. I had Deb come out and watch it with me. The color jumps all around for just a few moments from spine to edge. Pretty trippy.
 
Hey....Can I have some of that stufff. Must be good. Visuals.....Visuals.
 
peter nap said:
Mark, I told you to light the gas before you breath deeply.
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haha ,Don I thought he was on something HMMM
I must have a some extra LP here :D
 
Is this after an interrupted quench in something sticky green and smelly?

Some steels show quite an array of color after plate quenching. I have been tempted to try and preserve them on A2 several times.
 
oh.........were all in for trouble now...............MAster Williams has gone off the deep end :)~
 
... I just thought he was wiped out on cough syrup.

Problem is, I know what he's talking about!
 
Love to watch the blade cool -- it'll tell you a lot about your heat.
 
No Knob Creek Clark. I only touch the hard stuff at Trackrock.

And we dont have any sticky green and stinky around here. Just brown stanky from south of the border :). Least that's what I've heard.
 
Just funnin' you Master. Orange is one of my favorite colors and it looks even better when you see something go from black to a kinda translucent dance orange.....very cool stuff indeed!

Even more fun the closer to midnight and early mornin'.

:D

Clark
 
Mark, hang a large billet by the handle sometime and tap it with your hammer while it is cooling! That is way COOL. THe energy from your hammer will transfer into the hot billet and you can see it resonate throughout the steel in waves. The bigger the billet the cooler the show, it is like watching the aurora borealis in your steel:)
 
I'll have to do that Kevin.

Do you think the color jumping around is the final phase before it changes back to magnetic, or is it just a transformation change on the brink? or Both?
 
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