Subject: Re: Tool Steel

From: Tom Alexander <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 07:27:16 -0400 (EDT)

At 12:27 PM 7/9/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Two questions Tom, Did you anneal between forging and grinding?  Also, 
>my experience showed me that hammering both sides equally, number and 
>relative strength of each blow, helped to keep stresses from entering the 
>steel, but the anneal step is critical.  It serves to ease those 
>stresses.  Annealing can be done in wood ashes.  The little bit of 
>charcoal in the ashes will prolong the cooling process by quite a bit, 
>and the slower the cool-off, the more stress relieved.  If it's still too 
>hot to touch 24 hours later...that's great!
>   Bob
>
Bob:

No, I didn't anneal but will try that next go-round. Many thanks.

Regards,
Tom