OccamsBlade
Jim Dobbler
- Joined
- Jan 23, 2014
- Messages
- 227
If you have issues with warping, a 1200f x2h subcritical anneal after grinding can help. I don’t use it very often any more. My grinds are much more even now than a few years ago.
Yeah, I need to alternate sides more often when grinding. I think grinding on one side for too long was the issue on these larger thinner kitchen knives.
Also was thinking I could put a warped blade through normalization/thermal cycles, and then fix the warps on the last cycle before it cools. I still have some 01, 1084, and 1095 I have to go through that could probably benefit from normalization and grain refinement. And would only have to fix warps once. But seems like that would just make the warps more pronounced and would take more work to correct.
A water cooled platen might not be a bad idea either.