[TheForge] Bronze
Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
artgawk at thegrid.net
Thu Aug 5 02:32:30 EDT 2010
Oh; thanks Kim...Never occurred to me to quench 'em. Just
assumed repeated heat cycling would be enough.
I've successfully forged other Cu alloys a fair amount.
Kim George wrote:
> Some alloys are slightly different but in general what you're looking
> for is a black heat. It's just easier to heat it to cherry and let it
> cool than trying to judge it in the fire. You should also quench it
> about every third time. Re member when you do that you are annealing
> the piece.All nonferrous metals are like that.
>
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