[TheForge] Steel substitution
Andy Vida
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Wed Jan 16 10:14:00 2002
Adam Whiteson wrote:
>
> I have used 5160 for small hot chisels. Seems to work well if you keep
> cooling the edge after every few hammer blows. I think A36 would make
> a poor chisel hot or cold.
I've made chisels of A36 and they have worked OK when super
quenched. Not a first choice by any means, but they were
good enough to use as gravers on Pure Iron (I was cutting some
fuller-like grooves in an iron bracelet). Cutting edge was
shot after about an hour of hacking and had to be dressed, but
given that I had no gravers of that size and configuration,
the SQ'd mild steel was just the ticket.