nelsonchenknives
Member
Hi all,
I'm back with another basic heat treat question. I've been working on some hamon blades, and from time to time, I'll fail to get a soft spine and thus need to re-do the heat treat. My question is do I need to normalize the already hardened blade before re-hardening the blade? and if so, what kind of normalizing cycles should I run for 26c3 steel? the blade is a flat blank at 65 RHC through out, no forging or grinding at all.
I asked my material science friend, and he's leaning towards not doing any additional process and go straight to austenizing temp and then quench, but I thought I would get a second opinion here.
Thanks!!
I'm back with another basic heat treat question. I've been working on some hamon blades, and from time to time, I'll fail to get a soft spine and thus need to re-do the heat treat. My question is do I need to normalize the already hardened blade before re-hardening the blade? and if so, what kind of normalizing cycles should I run for 26c3 steel? the blade is a flat blank at 65 RHC through out, no forging or grinding at all.
I asked my material science friend, and he's leaning towards not doing any additional process and go straight to austenizing temp and then quench, but I thought I would get a second opinion here.
Thanks!!