the best quench, well for me

[Mungo Park]

I use 01 steel %99 of the time, and the odd piece of found farm steel.
I managed to produce a hammon with a cultivator shovel, suspected 1095,1085?. I used fire place cement and olive oil and it worked the first time. I have since tried again with canola oil and no hammon.
I have not gone back to the olive oil for another try, but in reading this forum someone mentioned that canola oil is a slow quench oil.
So out of the every day sundrie oils, oilve, canola, car oil, transimision fluid.... What would be the best for 01.
What would be best for a hammon.
Cheers Ron.

 

[silver_pilate]

Not sure if you're asking about hamons in O-1, but it's very hard, if not impossible to get a true hamon in O-1. It's a deep hardening steel. The lines you see on O-1 blades are almost always tempering lines or edge-quench lines. O-1 needs a medium speed oil and hardens pretty well in just about any oil including canola.

Almost any sundry oil you could use would be considered a medium or slower speed oil. The closest home-brewed quench approaching a fast oil like Park's #50 would be a brine in my mind.

--nathan