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Saturday while at IG's after destroying a piece of 1084
, I took a couple of pattern welded pieces I had made a year or so ago and quenched them in the slack bucket on the side of IG's #300 Fisher.
The twist patter is around 120 layers and the smaller piece is around 350 layers and it also has a small amount of nickel in it, this piece was cut from a bowie that I a couple of years ago, I will not hesitate to finish it, as this steel is good knife steel.
These pieces are made of bandsaw blade and pallet strap. I had this material analyzed at work quite a while back and have not used it since.
I didn't bother warming the water as 1. I really didn't have time, 2. IG and Gary were busy at that work station.
I brought the pieces up to critical individually and just stuck them in the slack bucket moving the steel back and forth till they were very black and dropped them in to cool.
I brought them to work today and had them rockwell tested. The technician asked if I wanted them tested in the C scale and I told him it better register in the C scale. Well anyway both pieces tested out to 59+ on the C scale. These were just to see if this steel will get hard, the pieces are not surface ground and are somewhat irregular which also affected the results of the test.
I imagine that with a proper quench for steel with about .5% carbon content water is just fine. When I quench with water around 140oF I think, I hope I can get a little higher.
All in all that was a good day at IG's
The twist patter is around 120 layers and the smaller piece is around 350 layers and it also has a small amount of nickel in it, this piece was cut from a bowie that I a couple of years ago, I will not hesitate to finish it, as this steel is good knife steel.
These pieces are made of bandsaw blade and pallet strap. I had this material analyzed at work quite a while back and have not used it since.
I didn't bother warming the water as 1. I really didn't have time, 2. IG and Gary were busy at that work station.
I brought the pieces up to critical individually and just stuck them in the slack bucket moving the steel back and forth till they were very black and dropped them in to cool.
I brought them to work today and had them rockwell tested. The technician asked if I wanted them tested in the C scale and I told him it better register in the C scale. Well anyway both pieces tested out to 59+ on the C scale. These were just to see if this steel will get hard, the pieces are not surface ground and are somewhat irregular which also affected the results of the test.
I imagine that with a proper quench for steel with about .5% carbon content water is just fine. When I quench with water around 140oF I think, I hope I can get a little higher.
All in all that was a good day at IG's
If we had three of them running. you would of been running are in your skivvies. OH MY GOD!!!!:barf: