[TheForge] need help on a project

[peter fels]

OK...I'm intrigued,  
but not enough to buy the good fellow's book.
Could you be talked into giving a summary?

A related Q.
These methods need to be quick enough not to fry the handle...
Is the necessity to "soak" near the critical temperature offset by the thinness?


On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:04 PM, blakkpawss at yahoo.com wrote:

> Simple solution, use the semi-solid quenchant method that Wayne Goddard uses.  Tried and true.  Available in his book The $50 Knife Shop.
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> The induction heater sounds like a fun solution...
> Shame they're still so expensive.
> Iron hot block sounds good too...
> Thanks Paul.
> 
> 
> On Aug 1, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Paul wrote:
> 
>> If you have access to an induction heater in one of your friends shops, 
>> you could easily heat the edge with the handle in place and quench the 
>> edge without a problem. I have not used the 'heat a LARGE block of iron 
>> and heat the edge with that' method but I could see where that would 
>> work also... I can, however, tell you that the induction heater does 
>> work very well.
>> 
>> paul
>> WB9HCO
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>> On 08/01/2011 05:28 PM, peter self wrote:
>>> For the application, an edge quench makes sense.
>>> 
>>> But, just for discussion.....
>>> I have a few old favorite knives that have been sharpened many times over the years,
>>> so much so, that they are ground past the hardened edge and have become too soft to keep an edge.
>>> I've goofed around with work hardening the edge, with very modest success.
>>> Seems too much trouble to strip them, re-heat treat them and rehandle them.
>>> I've mused about wrapping the handle in a wet rag and re-edge hardening them with a torch...Haven't tried yet.
>>> 
>>> Last..grousing;
>>> Our pleasant house sitter was very effective at dulling the kitchen knives..presumably sawing her preferred veggies
>>> on the stone countertop and the ceramic plates.   Arrrrrrg!
>>> 
>>> On Aug 1, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Ron Childers wrote:
>>> 
>>> <SNIP>
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