Heat Treating Services for Small Volume

Thescrawnylumberjack said:
Last I saw each type of steel counts as its own batch so if you want volume pricing you need to send X amount of all the same blade steel.

I don’t care for heat treating oil hardening steels but I’d help you out with heat treating some air hardening steels.
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Last I heard they were possibly treating several different steels in a batch. This could lead to overheating, underheating, or anywhere in between. Like I said though, I haven't been on here much since 2015. This could all be old news.
 
me2 said:
Last I heard they were possibly treating several different steels in a batch. This could lead to overheating, underheating, or anywhere in between. Like I said though, I haven't been on here much since 2015. This could all be old news.
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Peter's is pretty legit.

I often heat treat several different steels in a batch. For me the batches need to be similar temper tempterure.
 
me2 said:
Last I heard they were possibly treating several different steels in a batch. This could lead to overheating, underheating, or anywhere in between. Like I said though, I haven't been on here much since 2015. This could all be old news.
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That's how the cookie crumbles.

Unless you pay to fill the volume of an entire furnace at specific temperature.

You don't get to select highly specific austenitizing temperatures. The furnaces are always running full time at a specific range of temperatures for never ending mountains of work from all across the country.

It's the heat treaters discression to select what range your pieces will fill in and what the openings are. They do have a lot of experience.

You can select if you want a cryo and what HRC you would like them to temper to.

If you wanna nerd out on HT and maximize the steels potential you'll have to set up your own operation and drop a serious investment in the proper tools.

Everybody has to start somewhere, I started with Peter's and was eventually able to fund my own heat treatment equipment piece by piece in what felt like an eternity.

Peter's has limitations but I appreciated everything Brad Stallsmith did when he could.
 
navman said:
I use Peter's and have never had a warped or failed blade return to me. I grind the high wear resistant steels to .010-.015 pre HT and have not had any issues with bacon edge from them.
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I use them quite often too... Brad is awesome to work with. The only thing I dislike is that they use a torch to straighten blades and on some stainless steels I've had the brown go down to the edge which is not a good sign. So I currently send fixed to bos and folder blades (since they don't need straightening) to peters.
 
For the 2 or 3 blades I want to make I’ll stick with the local shop. If I get to the point I have enough to call a “batch” I’ll check into Bos and Peters.
 
I built my oven this summer and picked up a liquid nitrogen dewar, so I can do my own HT and cryo! Did 10 Magnacut and 2 AEBL blades in my first run!
 
DeadboxHero said:
That's how the cookie crumbles.

Unless you pay to fill the volume of an entire furnace at specific temperature.

You don't get to select highly specific austenitizing temperatures. The furnaces are always running full time at a specific range of temperatures for never ending mountains of work from all across the country.

It's the heat treaters discression to select what range your pieces will fill in and what the openings are. They do have a lot of experience.

You can select if you want a cryo and what HRC you would like them to temper to.

If you wanna nerd out on HT and maximize the steels potential you'll have to set up your own operation and drop a serious investment in the proper tools.

Everybody has to start somewhere, I started with Peter's and was eventually able to fund my own heat treatment equipment piece by piece in what felt like an eternity.

Peter's has limitations but I appreciated everything Brad Stallsmith did when he could.
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That was my fear. Everything is austenized to the same temperature (the temperature of the most "demanding" steel.). Then, they adjust the temper. I'm not saying they don't do a good job, but I prefer ultra small batches heat treated by custom makers. Triple normalization cicles, austenization to the exact temperature recommended by the companies.
 
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