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Posted by Mark Russell on April 22, 2006, 8:30 pm
Please log in for more thread options that is what I was afraid of. I have a friend of mine that works at a
heat treating company. Maybe I can talk him into slipping some tools
into a batch of m2 steel when he is treating them. (i doubt it)
alvinj@XX.com wrote:
>> I am a armature wood turner and a armature blacksmith. I wanted
>> to take a try at making my own turning tools does anyone know a
>> good source of m2 tool steel and good resources on how to harden
>> it properly?
>
> Cool. :)
>
> Man you gotta know I'm all-for guys doing stuff themselves, got
> my rear axle on my pickup apart right now, gonna replace all the
> bearings by myslef, if posible, with help, only if I need it.
>
> But heat treating your own high speed steel ain't gonna pay off
> unless you got a lot of money to spend on equipment. Me, with what
> I have to work with, I can't even heat treat A2 tool steel and get
> it to be better than plain ol' O1, because A2 needs a half hour soak
> at a very specific temperature (1750 to 1775F).
>
> All A2 needs is a temperature controlled electric furnace.
> (i got the parts just haven't got around to putting it together)
>
> But that's only good for A2, won't even come close to what's needed
> for HSS.
>
> The best edge holding knife blades to be had are those made from the
> "all hard" type power hacksaw blades. .100" are the thickest I know
> of in the US, but 3mm and 3.5mm are sold in Europe.
>
> Too thin huh? :/
>
> There's a "used tools" store in town and they've got what you
> could use, I bet, large lathe bits and all sorts of odd HSS and
> WC tooling, maybe check into a place like that in your area?
>
> They are under "tools-used" in my local yellow pages.
>
> Just to hold the wolves at bay... ;)
>
> Yes, you -can- heat treat HSS with a torch.
>
> And yes, it won't be any better than a really well done "torch
> heat treated and cold treated" hunk of old file (1.22%C steel).
>
> To get the medium and high alloy steel's "increased potential" you
> need some fancy heat treating equipment. :/ That's a fact. :/
>
> Adding a cold treatment to some plain high carbon steel can work
> wonders tho. I make knife blades that can "cut into stuff" like
> the teeth on a tap do.
>
> Home heat treated F2 or O7 tool steels, since rounds will prob'ly
> work for you, will prob'ly beat just about everything shy of
> professionally heat treated HSS in edge holding. It's what they
> used for "finishing cuts" before HSS and WC got so cheap and
> plentiful.
>
> I've been wanting to make some knife blades from F2 or O7 tool
> steel forever, but can't get it in sheet form. :/
>
> I don't want F2 or O7 forged, I'd have to get "rounds" (or hex)
> sliced up and then the slabs surface ground.
>
> Maybe some day?
>
> Alvin in AZ
> http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/
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