using a microscope and help with lighting

I do attend the University of Michigan. I guess I would partly be getting a microscope like this to satisfy my curiosity, and also because I've been reading all these technical papers on heat treating from the engineering libraries, and they all come with nice pictures of metallographic structure and such...

I make knives as a hobby, and it would probably be overkill to buy a microscope at this point, especially since then my imaging equipment would be much more precise than my heat treating equipment (a propane forge). When (hopefully) I get better heat treating equipment, I would like to try out various methods I've read about.

I've considered going to the materials science facilities to ask about using some of their equipment. I don't know how friendly they would be to a computer science student coming in and messing around in their labs, so I never got around to it.
 
Cool, "Monster". I bet if you made a couple differentially hardened and tempered test blades, snapped 'em, and hauled 'em to the MS lab you'd get plenty of interest and some freebie micrographs. You know as well as I that "government jobs" are always higher priority than serious academics. :D

Heck, better yet, haul 'em over to the lab and let em break 'em with their machines. Your work may become the object of a MS thesis!! :)
 
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