O1 Soak time, and canola oil quench temp.

[samuraistuart]

This place is unreal. Steadily becoming more so. Justin, take a moment and READ the post right above yours.

You just resurrected a FOUR year old thread. Congrats. Right after another poster was, rightly so, called out for a 3 year old thread.

Do yourself a favor. If you're serious, start a new thread. Do a damn search.

These type of threads are SERIOUSLY getting old. Big time. Non stop. Search people. Search. For God's sake.

with that said, I'll bite on your post. Most ALL O1, as long as it isn't forged, is annealed properly. Skip any pre heat steps ( knife sized cross sections need no preheat with low alloy carbon steels). Hold at 1475f for 10 minutes. 15 is max. 20 is really too long Quench in 130f canola or commercial medium speed oil like AAA. Heat the commercial oil to what it says to heat it.

You will not be able to get the max potential of O1 with your set up. Read what Rick M said.

 

[samuraistuart]

To the mods and owners of this forum.....can we not have 2 different "shop talk" forums?

One that allows posts that have been posted over and over and over, that people seemingly refuse to do a simple google search, or heaven forbid a BladeForums custom search?

Then add another that has a more professional and more seriously oriented goal and tone to it? I don't want to name names for fear of leaving others out. Larrin's recent posts are a good example of what I mean by a "pro" shop talk forum. Others as well. Warren. Kuraki. DonH. KarlBA. MattG. RickM. You get the drift.

Instead of the usual, "why is my blade not hard?" "How do you do a Hamon?" "What mystery steel should I use", Etc


I'm not trying to sound like a bad guy here. I'm sure that is going to come across to many people. But this is getting really ridiculous . This whole forum is full of stuff that has been hashed and rehashed and rehashed over and over and over again. Tell me I'm wrong.

Tell the same to the dozens/hundreds who have left and refuse to post in ST because of this nonsense.

Rant over. You other makers, you know where I'm coming from. I come here because I take the time to learn and help others. If I have a question, by all that's holy I SEARCH it first. I also want to help others. But this is beyond the pale now.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

I feel your pain Stuart, but the new members don't use searches. Most are young and want an instant answer. We tried to make a second forum for people to ask questions that were new member based ... called Hammer and Tongs ... but it didn't work out. They still pull up old threads and post away. I try and correct them gently, and close those threads. When you se one of these pop up, send me or another Moderator a PM or email and we will try to steer them right.

Justin - You have pulled up a six year old thread. Please look at the original post date and read the subsequent posts ... looking at their dates ... before making a new post on an old thread. If you have a question on the subject, make a new thread. Before posting at all I recommend you read the info in the stickys, and the use the Bladeforums Custom Search Engine ( also in the Stickys) to read some past info on the subject. You would have found lots of info on O-1 HT.


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