Need help with the heat treating process!

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Adam w. blade

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Hello there people of bladeforums im looking for some help with the heat treating process. Now i've done my homework so im not in the full blue :thumbup: ive spent hours reading metallurgy text, sections in the machinery handbook, Wayne Goddards 50 knife shop, YouTube videos & internet searches ect. so i know the different steps involved, but can anybody give me a list of what comes first, then second, ect? Is it shaping and forging, quenching, then annealing and grinding, then tempering and final finish? do i have the general idea? :confused: i understand the whole working hardness deal and quenching hardens tempering softens. i think. haha. thanks for any advice!! :)
 
I don't forge but I will give you a run down on stock removal process outline for heat treating.

1) cut out
2) profile the shape
3) pre-heat treat grind
4) Thermal Cycle to reduce stresses and grain size ( you will hear a lot of different things about this )
5) Heat treat
6) Quench
7) Temper
8) Clean up
9) Final grinding
10) Hand sanding
11) Handling
12) post pictures to the internet

Since I don't forge it is really hard to believe what I say about that. but

If you forge, you would forge, anneal, then start your profiling and grinding and follow the same steps from there.
 
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