[TheForge] Re: You can always tell a Yankee...

[Dan Tull]

dan tull
georgia
abba, afc, S.C. psba, obg,sofa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
>> At any rate, it got me to wondering if air hardening steel has a
>> normalized state? More to the point, Normalized for us at
>> home-hobyists?  But then, I suppose it wouldn't likely have an
>> annealed state, either? except as it comes from the supplier.

For our use, I wonder what the real difference is between
"normalized" and "as forged"?  As long as the last heats you don't beat 
stresses into it.