Subject: Re: Tool Steel

From: TOMBGUARD <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 10:12:21 CST

>Nope. (I envy you guys that know all that stuff about tool steels.)
>But I've made some cold-work stakes from Nicholson files that have
>been very durable. And also cutters for an antique pattern lathe (for
>making spokes and handles) that held up just fine. Quenched the stakes
>in water, the cutters in vegetable oil.

I am just learning about the high carbon steels, but would the
Nicholson files not be brittle if they were just worked without being
normalized or annealed, or is this taken for granted here.  Like I
said I am new at this and I am in the process of being taught how to
make my first knife.  I am to the filing and shaping point after
having forged it out of a small piece of truck spring and normalizing
it three times.

Robert

  Robert H. Neidlinger                      [email-masked]
  "The Tomb Guard"                          [email-masked] 
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                                                Winnie the Pooh

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From: Kayne and son hardware <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 13:44:25 +0000

I have Nicholson files that I have annealed and used as slitting , hot 
and cold  and even cutting asphalt. They been in use for better than 
20  years no heat treatment at all, I heard the new files are mild 
steel case hardened do not know  steve kayne