04-12-2017, 11:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-12-2017, 06:05 PM by Mark Reich.
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Thank You for visiting with me about about this Mr. Jan! It's very interesting to me to talk about steel from a metallurgical point of view.
"Austenitic" basically means "unable to be hardened, for lack of carbon", approximately? I think all 300 series stainless is like this, which makes me wonder why it's called "steel".
Something I've only recently heard, is that Hitachi White steel, which is only Fe + C, can only produce cementite, not martensite. Is that accurate?
We have a very good college an hour from here called the South Dakota School of Mines. The metallurgy Professor saw my wife's Reich Precision jacket, and noticed the "HEPK Mastersmith" line. He's familiar with Mr. Ed Fowler, and knows we work hard on 52100. He asked my wife if I'd be interested in talking to his class about blade metallurgy, and how I maximize 52100. I was totally shocked, but super interested! I plan on getting together with him this fall, when I'll have time to do it.
His class made a sword that took the national championship recently. I have a copy of the newspaper article, and I'm eager to speak with them about it.
As soon as I'm comfortable with my new shops and equipment, and get caught up with production, I'll be visiting with them all I can. I might even be able to take some classes and play with their electron microscope! I really want to know what size grain I'm producing, and whether a 24 hour soak in LN really converts 52100 to 100% martensite.
As any knife maker knows, heat treatment is the most important part of making high performance knives. I've worked my tail off to come up with my version for 52100, which I will put up against all comers, in any type of steel.
I have a video or two on my website that shows normal HEPK destruction tests. I do a couple things that allow me to exceed normal strength and durability, while maintaining equally high cutting performance.
I'm always anxious to learn more. I'm looking forward to expanding my horizons with laminated Hitachi Aogami Super Blue, and Blue #2 in Japanese style kitchen knives as soon as I am able. I have $9K worth of this steel straight off the boat from Japan, which is truly an unbelievable score.
"Austenitic" basically means "unable to be hardened, for lack of carbon", approximately? I think all 300 series stainless is like this, which makes me wonder why it's called "steel".
Something I've only recently heard, is that Hitachi White steel, which is only Fe + C, can only produce cementite, not martensite. Is that accurate?
We have a very good college an hour from here called the South Dakota School of Mines. The metallurgy Professor saw my wife's Reich Precision jacket, and noticed the "HEPK Mastersmith" line. He's familiar with Mr. Ed Fowler, and knows we work hard on 52100. He asked my wife if I'd be interested in talking to his class about blade metallurgy, and how I maximize 52100. I was totally shocked, but super interested! I plan on getting together with him this fall, when I'll have time to do it.
His class made a sword that took the national championship recently. I have a copy of the newspaper article, and I'm eager to speak with them about it.
As soon as I'm comfortable with my new shops and equipment, and get caught up with production, I'll be visiting with them all I can. I might even be able to take some classes and play with their electron microscope! I really want to know what size grain I'm producing, and whether a 24 hour soak in LN really converts 52100 to 100% martensite.
As any knife maker knows, heat treatment is the most important part of making high performance knives. I've worked my tail off to come up with my version for 52100, which I will put up against all comers, in any type of steel.
I have a video or two on my website that shows normal HEPK destruction tests. I do a couple things that allow me to exceed normal strength and durability, while maintaining equally high cutting performance.
I'm always anxious to learn more. I'm looking forward to expanding my horizons with laminated Hitachi Aogami Super Blue, and Blue #2 in Japanese style kitchen knives as soon as I am able. I have $9K worth of this steel straight off the boat from Japan, which is truly an unbelievable score.