My steps on making my first qaulity blade (need advice)

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american pride

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The steel I will be using will be 1075 at .250 by 2. I am looking to make a basic drop point hunter around 5 inch blade length; after hand forging to about 70% I will go to the grinder for the rest, I plan to normalize 3 cycles at critical and air cool at room temp, I then plan to heat around I shade past critical for quinch which will be canola oil heated to around 120c, will check with temp gauge. For tempering cycle I will be using my kitchen oven set to 400c for two, one hour cycles, is this going about it the right way or am I missing something that I need to know, I am trying very hard to ensure I set myself up for success before I start so please feel free for words of advice and critiques and Thanks my friends! Semper Fidelis
 
Sounds like a pretty good recipe to me. About the only step I would add is annealing after forging, heat to critical and allow to cool in the forge. I would recommend using a magnet to show critical temperature if you are not using a temperature controlled heat treat oven. I would also heat the canola to roughly 150 degrees F.
 
Thanks for the replies, the spine will come about .225 after surface grinding for a good flat blade. Thanks for the intel on how hot to pre-heat my oil also.
 
I'd suggest making a smaller blade for the first few and then after you have it down a bit try something bigger.
 
Also... Your temps are in C... Should be in F.
 
american pride said:
Thanks for the replies, the spine will come about .225 after surface grinding for a good flat blade.
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That's fairly thick for a hunter/skinner. As a user, I'd pass and continue looking for something about half as thick (along the lines of 0.125" thick at the spine). Just a thought you might consider.
 
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