Whether heat treatment is carded out in-house or subcontracted, procedures must be drawn up and adhered to if the heat treatment process is to be properly controlled. Subcontract heat treatment should ...

A lot of colloquial words that we might use when describing something’s durability take on extremely specific meanings when a materials scientist or blacksmith uses them. Things like “strength”, ...

The water hardening types of tool steel are covered by AS1239 ‘W’ grades and these are shallow hardening. These steels contain around 1% carbon and may have small additions of vanadium for grain ...

How to forge, weld, harden and temper tool steel for edges that stay sharp longer. Blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge, weld, harden and temper tool steel for cutting edges that stay sharp longer ...

This article was updated April 26, 2023. It was originally published Oct. 12, 2018. Heat treatments let engineers and metallurgists tailor the properties of metal parts so that they are a better fit ...

This build experiment set out to take an overheated bloom that became unusable high-carbon metal and convert it into workable iron and steel by deliberately managing carbon. Using a refinery hearth, ...