Ordered Some 80CrV2 - What to expect?

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Rockabilly Interim Pardon Viscount
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I did a little bit of research on this steel, but I have never worked with it. Should I expect anything unusual as far as how it grinds, sands or sharpens?

Thank you.
 
Its the only steel ive really worked with so far. And its excellent. The vanadium ensures small grain, breeze to HT, toughnesson par with 5160 and gets stupid sharp. Like a poor mans 3v
 
Did you get it from Aldo? If so, it's a good idea to give it a triple normalize before quenching. I had iffy results hardening it without doing that. Of course, if you're forging into a blade, you'll be normalizing anyway before quench- so this applies more to stock removal.
IIRC, 1650 for 5 minutes, cool to black
1500 for 5 minutes, cool to black
1350 for 5 minutes, cool to black

You'll see recommendations for austenitizing temp all over the board, but I've had good results with 1490 into warm P50 and a 385 temper for RC 61-60, and tough at that.

Contact Ed Braun on FB to get it from the Baron's department of metallurgy/HT.

If you got it from AKS, I've heard that it's supplied in a less large/spheroidal state from Chuck, and so won't require the pre-cycles, but I've not tried it myself.
 
Salem Straub said:
Did you get it from Aldo? If so, it's a good idea to give it a triple normalize before quenching. I had iffy results hardening it without doing that. Of course, if you're forging into a blade, you'll be normalizing anyway before quench- so this applies more to stock removal.
IIRC, 1650 for 5 minutes, cool to black
1500 for 5 minutes, cool to black
1350 for 5 minutes, cool to black

You'll see recommendations for austenitizing temp all over the board, but I've had good results with 1490 into warm P50 and a 385 temper for RC 61-60, and tough at that.

Contact Ed Braun on FB to get it from the Baron's department of metallurgy/HT.

If you got it from AKS, I've heard that it's supplied in a less large/spheroidal state from Chuck, and so won't require the pre-cycles, but I've not tried it myself.
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Yeah but what about your new hammer, we need to see that dude running.

Hoss
 
jdm61 said:
Long flat bars of metal with kind of a rough gray surface finish? Oh, you weren't actually asking what to expect. Nevermind. :D
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OK that was all I needed to know.

:D
 
Plus 1 on normalizing the Steel from Aldo. Treated the same way as 1084 and 15n20 it underhardend and left a kinda gummy edge that was hard to sharpen so it wasn't even good for a chopping blade. Now that I know how to deal with it i like the steel.
 
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