rebel
04-25-2010, 03:15 PM
This guy has a lot of experience with different steels and a couple things I got out of it for knife construction were:
1. If you don't know the carbon content of the steel you can do a spark test. You can touch your steel to the grinder and see what kind of spark it has. A yellow spark has less carbon than a white spark.
2. Some steels, due to molecular alignment, need to be annealed two or three times to make them workable.
I thought it was good information to pass along.
1. If you don't know the carbon content of the steel you can do a spark test. You can touch your steel to the grinder and see what kind of spark it has. A yellow spark has less carbon than a white spark.
2. Some steels, due to molecular alignment, need to be annealed two or three times to make them workable.
I thought it was good information to pass along.