Love the dance Wil. That made me laugh. Thanks for sharing this WIP and your shop. Some day, some day I'll have me a Catcheside
Thanks Guys, glad these are coming together, here is a further video for you on the forging stage....
[video=youtube;yRX922iojlU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRX922iojlU&feature=youtu.be[/video]
Edge material is a very high layer damascus, which quietly contradicts those who would suggest damascus is just for show as these two make a steel far more capable than either are on their own, very edge stable at very high hardness 64/65hrc in this case. The rest of the blade in made up of 4 bars, 3 twisty and one basket weave in 01 and pure nickel, twists are nickel 15n20 and 01. It kind of is honyaki, all hardenable steel bar the tiny slithers of nickel......thus the differential temper......:biggrin:
In simple terms, one steel is capable of very high hardness the other is a few points lower and has very high toughness. On their own at this same heat treat and temper steel A would not even hold an edge it would be completely unstable at these hardnesses, Steel B would be reasonably hard 61/62 and very tough, (high nickel content) When combined in a very fine pattern, they are infact at different harnesses but behave very much like one steel, hardness tests everywhere evenly, steel layers are small enough to support each other, So Steel B stabilizes steel A giving toughness and steel A gives the high hardness. I learnt this through trial an error, playing with these steels together and their heat treatment. I think its my favourite steel, (made up of two steels):laugh: Im loving the 1.2442 though.......
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