Metallurgy and other enigmas

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1. Metallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths & Others who Heat Treat and Forge Steel

   By Charles du Preez, July 29, 2017   

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   • Charles du Preez
   • July 29, 2017

2. junkyard steel facts

   By Matt Bower, September 24, 2009
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   • James Spurgeon
   • December 31, 2015

3. Official ASTM Railroad Spike Composition and Headstamps

   By James Spurgeon, December 30, 2015
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   • Austin_Lyles
   • December 30, 2015

4. tripple quenching vs tripple normalising

   By owen bush, December 3, 2008
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   • Richard Furrer
   • May 27, 2015

5. Structure Of Martensite

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   By Harper John, June 10, 2009
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   • John Page
   • January 19, 2015

6. Heat Treating Salt Recipies

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   By j. walters, October 26, 2006
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   • Gyuri
   • January 5, 2015

7. Pre-Quench Soak at Critical or No?

   By Dave Stephens, July 29, 2012
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   • Jan Ysselstein
   • June 24, 2014

8. Inducing positive curvature (upward sori) in a shinogi-zukuri katana using OIL

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   By Jesus Hernandez, March 10, 2012
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   • dustin reagan
   • December 5, 2012

9. cracks from water quench?

   By Luke Shearer, July 18, 2011
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   • jake cleland
   • July 22, 2011

10. Vanadium

    By Jeremy Vaught, September 18, 2008
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    • Bertie le Roux
    • June 21, 2011

11. Calculating CCT/TTT diagrams

    By kb0fhp, October 4, 2007
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    • Bertie le Roux
    • June 21, 2011

12. Great dissertation on heat treating basics

    By Karl B. Andersen, March 8, 2008
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    • Bennett
    • November 29, 2008

13. Bronze hardness/tooling (Wrong forum?)

    By JeffEvarts, July 21   

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    • Jeroen Zuiderwijk
    • August 7

14. nickel carbon stop

    By Dan P., March 18
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    • Alan Longmire
    • July 8

15. Help identifying

    By Joshua States, May 28   

    • stainless
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    • Joshua States
    • June 14

16. Color change of steel during martensite formation

    By Gareth Barry, June 12
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    • Alan Longmire
    • June 13

17. Effect of various elements in steel

    By Joël Mercier, June 8
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    • Jerrod Miller
    • June 11

18. Knife Steel Nerds

    By RonB, June 5
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    • Alan Longmire
    • June 5

19. Heat treatment for strikers

    By Casey Cardwell, May 27
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    • Alan Longmire
    • May 30

20. How's this grain?

    By Casey Cardwell, May 18
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    • Vern Wimmer
    • May 23

21. Vertical Quench Question

    By Tim Crocker, May 16
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    • Doug Lester
    • May 17

22. Anybody use McMaster-Carr 11 sec oil?

    By Mason Simonet, April 30
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    • Mason Simonet
    • April 30

23. Greatly silly question. Steel-odor

    By Vern Wimmer, April 24
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    • Charles du Preez
    • April 25

24. quench, temper and cerakote question

    By wendal, April 20
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    • Zeb Camper
    • April 25

25. Getting into Metallography

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    By Aiden CC, February 23
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    • Aiden CC
    • April 6