One last thing Jeremy, I should probably cover this in your other thread on using what you have, but I will throw it in here since it is much more spe...

Martensite is the good stuff that we are always wanting to make when quenching a blade, it is the strongest phase of steel. Pearlite is what happens ...

Hello Jeremy, I am glad to see that Lin was able to help you with your other question. It would be hard to say that differential heat treatment would...

[quote name='marquie_isaac' date='12 June 2011 - 05:10 AM' timestamp='1307873426' post='1752'] Hi guys, well I had some S-7 tool steel dumped on t...

[quote name='Kevin Menard' date='28 May 2011 - 10:26 AM' timestamp='1306596363' post='1695'] Okay I got this - that's why we normalize to reduce ...

[quote name='Charles_Hurst' date='31 May 2011 - 09:06 AM' timestamp='1306850813' post='1706'] Hello all, I recently purchased 5 gallons of Chevron 7...

Hello Kevin, ( a fine and good sounding name by the way), as a chemist you should be able to run with this stuff a little faster as long as you make ...

As Lin said, oil hardening steels will open you up to a much wider choice of quenching oil options than shallow hardening steels like 10XX series or W...

I’ve been paged. This is one of those “depends” type of questions. I often see a lot of disagreement between makers about things like stress ...

If you want a ricasso that will appeal to the widest number of human eyes, measure the width, from guard to plunge and multiply it by 1.618. But I al...

Michael, you put a lot of time into your post, showing how deidcated you are to understanding this stuff, allow me to "adjust" your definitions for gr...

[quote name='Rick Baum' date='20 March 2011 - 04:27 PM' timestamp='1300656469' post='1400'] Thanks Kevin! Very interesting to say the least. W...

[quote name='Mike Krall' date='20 March 2011 - 11:26 AM' timestamp='1300638361' post='1398'] Kevin, I remember coming across various discussion...

[quote name='Rick Baum' date='18 March 2011 - 03:45 PM' timestamp='1300481102' post='1395'] ...Not to side track the thread, but... In regards to th...

[quote name='Rick Baum' date='16 March 2011 - 05:02 PM' timestamp='1300312949' post='1381'] Thanks for the explanation of your hypothesis Kevin. If...