Heat treating 1.2442 tool steel

[Jokkes]

Hi, I am a beginning knife maker and I am considering to make a knife out of 1.2442 tool steel. Hower I can't find anything on the heat treatment of this specific steel...

Is this an easy steal to heat treat? Can it be treated like O1 tool steel? Since I only have a campfire and a kitchenoven for the heattreatment. All help is welcome!

 

[jdm61]

Wrong subforum, but here we go. No, I would not use a "campfire" to HT the stuff under any circumstances. But then again, I wouldn't use that method for O1. If you want to find out about the steel, Google its other name 115W8.

 

[Guyon]

Moving this one to Shop Talk.