[TheForge] Triangles

Tue May 4 18:51:00 2004

My data may be anecdotal, but it's pretty reliable.  Spring steel rings much
better than mild steel, even when it's not tempered properly.  As an
experiment, take a 12" piece of 1/2" round mild steel, bore a small hole in
one end, run a light string through the hole, and hang it up.  Do the same
with a 12" piece of spring steel.  Strike them both.  Then try different
pieces of spring steel tempered to different degrees of hardness.  If you do
all this (I've done it -- just not all in one session), you'll definitely
hear some differences -- and all of them the same shape.

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Mike Murphy

P.S.  I do get didactic and pedagogical, don't I?

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Is it really the hardness or carbon content of the steel that changes
the tone or is it the shape?

I think the shape. Small differences between one triangle and another
may change the tone but I think the tone is not affected by the carbon
content or the quenching. Super or otherwise.

This opinion is just an opinion. I have no actual data to confirm or 
deny.
If you do have actual data (not anecdotal) I would like to see it.

Bob
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> At 15:57 05/03/04, you wrote:
>> Made a few triangles - I found that mild steel works
>> fine, but you get a much better ring if you quench the
>> corners in superquench. Really improves the tone and
>> intensity.
>>
>> FWFaller

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