Recommendation? To demagnetize a carbon steel.. annealing help?

[Recessiveriver]

i want to demagnetize the damascus billet, i have heard that by heating the steel to a high temperature it may alter it's magnetic property.
Is it correct?

 

[Cereal_killer]

Do you know the exact steel types of your Damascus?

 

[danbot]

When a carbon steel is heated to its critical temperature it becomes non magnetic. If you quench it from this point it will harden. If you let it cool slowly it will anneal. But if there is a machine shop in your area you could ask them to DE-magnetize it for you. Most machine shops will have a DE-magnetizer and it will only take a minute or so to do.

 

[3fifty7]

From what I'm reading you are implying that the billet is magnatized, as in it attracts iron. Or do you mean it is attracted to a magnet?

At high temp 1500F give or take the billet will reach the austenite stage and will no longer be attracted to a magnet at that temp., when the temp is dropped the billet will once again be attracted to a magnet.

 

[Recessiveriver]

From what I'm reading you are implying that the billet is magnatized, as in it attracts iron. Or do you mean it is attracted to a magnet?

At high temp 1500F give or take the billet will reach the austenite stage and will no longer be attracted to a magnet at that temp., when the temp is dropped the billet will once again be attracted to a magnet.

Thanks, I did mean that it is attracted to a magnet.
And thank you you have answered my another question,

when the temp is dropped the billet will once again be attracted to a magnet.
Thanks