Why Knife Makers Should Break Their Knives. A journey into heat treating 1095. In this video I talk about heat treating and its affects it can have on a finished knife. Bad heat treatments do exist and good heat treating may not be as simple as following a specific set of times and temperatures. Not all ovens are created equal and not all forges heat the same. Testing your own knives with your specific heat treating recipe is super important. And this goes for any steel type you may choose to use in your knife making.
This is also why its important to use the correct kind of steel for your heating treating operation. I wouldn't not choose 1095 for any kind of knife making purpose if I didn't have an oven to heat treat it.
Soaking at temperature in a forge is just not possible unless you have some way of knowing the temperature in the forge. Steel color can change due to lighting conditions. And even experienced knife makers cant tell exact temperatures by color.
If you are a beginning knife maker dont let this video discourage you though. Get some 1080/1084 steel, heat to non magnetic and a little more, then quench. DONE. No need to soak to get full benefit.
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Hi, Im Alex, im a knife maker and RU-vidr, based out of southern Pennsylvania and my youtube channel is Outdoors55. This channel started as an outdoor backpacking channel, but quickly grew into a knife/ knife making channel. Everything I do on my channel is family friendly. I primarily focus on knife / knife making videos but occasionally throw in something different. Thank you for watching!😀
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