where can I send off a blade for heat treating?

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I have a friend who's a machinist, and he and I want to work on a blade design for a custom knife. I think we've settled on D-2 steel, but I don't know where to send it off for heat treating. Who do you experts recommend?

Zac
 
zcostilla said:
I have a friend who's a machinist, and he and I want to work on a blade design for a custom knife. I think we've settled on D-2 steel, but I don't know where to send it off for heat treating. Who do you experts recommend?

Zac
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TKS, Texas Knife supply http://www.texasknife.com/

Paul Boss will do it for you
anyone have Paul's addy?

Just wondering?
your friend as a machinist I would think would have the capability to heat treat steel in his shop..
this was one of my duties as a machinist way back when..:)
 
I send all my stainless (154, S30V, ATS34, stainless Damascus) to Paul for HT. His work is just outstanding....and he takes slipjoint springs right to the desired 50+/- Rc and blades within 1/2 a point of the 59 - 61 requested and tests each piece for hardness desired.

Do be aware though that he no longer does HT of Oil Quenched steel (like hi- carbon/ hi-contrast damascus).
 
Dan Gray said:
Just wondering?
your friend as a machinist I would think would have the capability to heat treat steel in his shop..
this was one of my duties as a machinist way back when..:)
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Actually, he's a welder with some machinist capabilities. He's got a great plasma table that will cut out any design within 1/16th of an inch in metal up to 1" thick and with 1/8" on steel 1"-2" thick. I was going to buy a bar of 3/16" thick D2 and have him cut out the blade blanks, going about 3/16" oversized on the pattern to grind it to match the pattern and then send off the blades for heat treating.

And THANKS ALL for the help!

Zac
 
I was just looking at the Paul Bos page and the TKS page. Is the cryogenic treatment all it's cracked up to be? If so, I might go with TKS. If not, I'm not sure. TKS's prices are cheaper, but what's an extra $50 for three blades if the quality is that much better, right? Any thoughts?

Zac
 
most of the super steels are meant to be cryogenicely enhanced so yes it should be done.

Paul does it too. though I have not had him do any for me
before I started doing SS myself and Cryo'ing about 6 years ago I had TKS do mine..
They say edge holding is razed as much or more than 30% just from the cryo with a point or 2 on the RC..and this depends on how well it's H/T'ed too.
 
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