03-22-2013, 01:27 AM
that is exactly what I meant :wink: : it`s the first step in the heat treating process, hardening the blade. As can be seen in the vid, the blade is heated up in a "normal" forge fire and then quenched in water. The following step, tempering, can also be done with the fire (or using a massive hot block of steel or copper).
All other modern types of "heat treating" (all the heating steps against the tensions of the forging process etc.; I think that is what you meant, Robert) have not been discovered and identified as special phenomenons before the end of the 19th century.
Bytheway: the "bending" shown in the vid in the quenching scene is the reason why it`s so difficult to make straight long single-edged blades
All other modern types of "heat treating" (all the heating steps against the tensions of the forging process etc.; I think that is what you meant, Robert) have not been discovered and identified as special phenomenons before the end of the 19th century.
Bytheway: the "bending" shown in the vid in the quenching scene is the reason why it`s so difficult to make straight long single-edged blades
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