[TheForge] to heat treat or not to heat treat... that is my question.

[Saint Phlip]

Why go to all the trouble? First time you wrap a piece of hot metal
around it, you're going to change the temper of it anyway, unless it's
an air-hardened alloy. Leave the one for your hot work alone, and if
you do enough cold work to justify it, make yourself one that's
hardened and tempered for that purpose.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Jason Nass <me at wargoth.com> wrote:
> Just finished up an anvil bick of 4140. I'm not overly familiar with using
> it for tools, so I am undecided whether to heat treat it and risk it being
> to brittle to deal with impact, or just leave it normalized. I'd imagine
> that being it is a high strength alloy, it should hold up to having hot
> steel hammered around it, especially being as I ain't gonna be using no 12#
> sledges on it. What thoughts might you metallurgist types have on the
> matter?
>
> Jason Nass - MacTalis Ironworks
> me at wargoth.com
>
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Saint Phlip

So, you think your data is safe?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html?hpt=T2

Heat it up
Hit it hard
Repent as necessary.

Priorities:

It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the smith.

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