[TheForge] A different needle question

[rfertner at cox.net]

That reminds me when I was volunteering at the Cowtown museum in Wichita back in the '90s and the resident blacksmith told me I could temper a tomahawk by dunking it into the oil quench, laying it on top of the fire, slow turning the blower and burning the oil off. He said to do it 3 times and it would have the right temper.
It worked for the tomahawk.

Rob
---- Bob Ehrenberger <eforge at centurytel.net> wrote: 
> I don't think that I've seen this one on this question.
> 
> I have not tried this, but guys that build flint locks tell me that they 
> temper the springs by putting them in a shallow dish, covering the spring 
> with oil and lighting it.  By the time the oil burns off the spring has 
> reached the proper temper.
> 
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
> 
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