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Vent: That one week where nothing would forge right and I almost quit
Last Tuesday I went through 3 billets of 1095 and they all cracked at the same spot in the quench. I checked my temps twice and even swapped to a fresh bucket of oil. Then Thursday I caught my hammer handle slipping and it flew off on the third swing, almost hit my window. By Friday I had a pile of scrap and a sore wrist, but I finally got one decent knife out of the batch. Has anyone else had a week where every heat cycle seemed cursed and you just had to walk away for a day?
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finleybutler9d agoMost Upvoted
Hey, what kind of preheat or normalization cycles were you running on those 1095 billets? Sometimes it's not the quench itself but the grain structure that sets you up for cracks from the start. Sounds like a brutal week regardless, glad you pushed through and saved one.
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