[TheForge] need help on a project

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I agree whole heartedly.  It's maybe $20-30 invested.  Worth every penny and have considered buying the newer edition of it.
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Buy the damned book.

You will not be sorry.

On 8/1/2011 7:17 PM, peter fels wrote:
> 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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