[TheForge] Do you know if the normalizing differ substantially from the annealing

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Hello Mr Dixon:
Many years ago, you did demos for the CBA, and later for the ABANA meet in San Luis Obispo.
At the time i was isolated and self taught in metalwork. The conferences, and especially your demos,
blew the top of my shaggy head away, and profoundly expanded my little metal working world!
I drove home with my brain boiling with images , ideas and possibilities, 
and immediately started to throw steel junk in a pile that became my treadle hammer.
You also inspired me to invent my pop-up-torch ( a simplified version of it is in the last "Hammer's Blow"),
which i've used almost daily ever since, and demoed at the next CBA conference.
Allow me to express my very warm thanks for those demoes you did,
and all you have contributed to blacksmithing!!!!!
( however much this bit of embarrassing fawning may be out of character)
peter fels


On Jun 4, 2013, at 2:39 PM, George Dixon wrote:

Do you know if the normalizing differ substantially from the annealing 

Normalizing is using heat in a controlled manner to remove stress imposed by forging

Annealing is using heat in a controlled manner to remove hardness, either from work hardening or heat treating
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