A couple of pieces I've made during the pandemic

John Palmer bit the dust sitting by the pool in his Essex hideaway (Sandpit Lane, Brentwood, which is on my regular ride route).

Local police called it a heart attack until the funeral director turned up to collect the body and noticed the little holes in his back, made by the hitman's bullets.
 
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AEB-L stainless steel, bubinga handle, Titanium pins.

A small trial piece for the wife to destruction test. I've said before I can't do stainless due to the complex heat treat... oops...

'Normal' carbon steels can normally be heat treated in a forge - heat to 800 ish degrees (a dull cherry red/non magnetic etc), and then quench and all good. Stainless is tricker. AEB-L needs to be held at 1050c degrees for over 15 mins in an oxygen free environment (with oxygen present, the steel sclaes, and loses the carbon).

That is Damn hot.

Once I figured out how to accurately hit that Temp for 15 mins with no atmosphere, it was easy :) comes out around 60rc after tempering. The blade is 2mm thick at the spine, and tapers to 0.3mm behind the bevel on the cutting edge.

So, hard & thin. She's a cutter.
 
Did you seal it in some sort of envelope? To keep the oxygen out? My making has hit a pause until cooler times. Have requests to make a couple then.
 
Certainly did - Stainless steel foil envelope. That was the easy bit. The fortune came when my wife was looking on facebook marketplace. we manged to bag an old but perfectly functional muffle furnace (basically a small, but super hot kiln/oven used to burn out investment casting moulds). It tops out at about 1100/1200c, which is perfect for what we need.

this little cutter is holding up well, and numbers 2 and 3 are in progress.
 

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Could any of you chaps make use of this? Over 5 1/2 ft x 4 ft - what an incredible thing!
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The traditional way to power that would have been a child. They frown on that sort of thing now, the soft wussies! It is a nice thing; not over restored either. No good for my gas forge. Give it a month or two and I may well consider it cold enough to wreck my elbow again with a bit of heating and beating!
 
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