Matt, I don't remember seeing that huntig sword before. Really top notch work sir!Ryan, that is a beauty. What made you think of using cholla? That st...

I had cut a coupon off the tang to check for carbide formations. This got bevels grond in, hardened, tempered, and polished to 800 grit, Then a couple...

Blade profiled, bevels ground in, and finished to 400 grit in preparation for HT.  Rough-grind.jpg

It really bugs me that the "edit post" function doesn't work for me to correct my spelling errors. It just spins a circle and never allows me to edit,...

Just to clarify the effect that even minor chemistry changes cause, there wer tow pucks in the post above from 12/19. They had different alloying elem...

Basically yes, but it's more of a "diffusion" heat treatment, where you are attempting to diffuse the alloys throughout the steel.Pendray talks about ...

There's is a lot at play here, but I do not think any of it relates to P content because I am not adding anything to the melt that would contribute P....

I cut the bar open to see the interior, and set about forging the bar into a blade. I found out the hard way that this steel doesn't really like too m...

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Last week I put a couple of pucks through a series of roasting cycles and tried again over the weekend. Here is a link to the latest process.

Forging these out has been quite the steep learning curve. The carbon content is somewhere in the 1.5% to 2.0% range making them rather fragile. The f...

I have made six "pucks" or "ingots" all in the 1 kg range using a small variety of carbide forming alloying elements, or just adding carbon to pure ir...

The following is just my opinion, so take it for what it is worth. The performance test is designed to show the smith's ability to produce a blade w...