Heat Treat Services for Long Sword Blades

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malcolmleslie

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First time posting. My name is John Craft and from the early eighties thru early two-thousands I produced Rapier swords and blades to the recreationists around the world. I have just started looking in producing the rapiers and blades. Unfortunately, one of the reasons I stopped when I did was, I lost my heat treater Sonee/Karsten heat treat in Phoenix, AZ. Here's the difficulty, I need 3/16" x 3/4" x 50" 1075 heat treated vertically. That size of endothermic ovens and oil baths are tough to find. Does anyone here know of a heat-treating service that has these requirements? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
 
You could call Brad at Peters Heat Treat. They did a couple of swords for me, but those were only 36" and I didn't have any special requirements about vertical. Brad can at least tell you what they are capable of.
 
You might try Stack metallurgical group, Portland OR. www.stackmet.com I know they have some of the biggest ovens in the country. And their web page says the do endothermic heat treating. Whether that means they can do what you need or not, I have no idea.

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Not sure if there's a difference in commercial and aerospace heat treaters besides industry certs, but I've had good luck with Burbank Steel Treating in Burbank CA for my company's aerospace components. It's worth giving them a shout. Same Continental Heat treating in Santa Fe Springs, ca
 
Look up sword makers in your area; they may have tall salt pot set ups or something? I am lucky to live near Dragons Breath Forge in CT and they make swords pretty frequently and have long ovens and salt pots!
 
Welcome John. One important reason to fill out your profile with the info is that wat=y we will know where you live, plus a bit about you. It helps get more specific answers.

One option is to build your own vertical HT forge. It isn't super hard if it has only one task - sword HT around 1500°F. A vertical blown gas forge with three or four burners and a 1/4" thick muffle pipe would be a fairly simple build. PID control would be a good system. Check out my two-stage PID control system in the stickies. Here is a good build using my system. Make it vertical and add more burners if desired. A 3" muffle in schedule 1/4" wall thickness will even out hot spots and protect the blade from the gasses.:

PID Controlled Forge/Heat Treat oven plans & WIP

So after going through the stickys a couple weeks ago and finding all of the amazing plans for different PID controlled forges, tempering ovens, salt pot etc, I've switched gears fully to creating a really high-functioning PID controlled forge & heat treating oven. First off, thanks to other...
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For a HT only forge, you don't need the blower control circuit.
 
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