Hey, sorry you lost it right at the end like that. It looks like you were trying to straighten it after the hardening when it snapped, if so I've made the same mistake. You only get a little bending time after hardening some oil-quenching steels because the oil leaves the steel hot enough to bend without snapping. With a water quench the temperature has been brought so low that the blade will simply snap (as you found out). If you end up with a warped blade after a quench the best option I've found is to temper the blade, then re-temper the blade again with some bending pressure: www.bladeforums.com/threads/straighten-during-the-temper.838681/ Thanks for posting this mistakes and all, it's really important to show both failure and success. Good luck, I look forward to your future videos!
Maybe use oil, cuz your machete is thin you should quench only the edge if you use water and the heat is not equal try moving the blade while heating in charcoal
You're not getting nearly enough heat from your makeshift forge. You should fill the bottom with coal and put a top on it. Cut a hole in the side and use that to insert the blade, and when you insert the blade bury it in the coals. You're never going to get a good quench with unevenly heated blade.
Aww too bad man. I guess something went wrong with hardening, maybe the temperatur or because you used water?? I always use old motor oil
I'm crying inside mate, it was so beautiful till it went ping, did it break across the closed holes? And had you already quenched a sample in water?
Hey, sorry you lost it right at the end like that. It looks like you were trying to straighten it after the hardening when it snapped, if so I've made the same mistake. You only get a little bending time after hardening some oil-quenching steels because the oil leaves the steel hot enough to bend without snapping. With a water quench the temperature has been brought so low that the blade will simply snap (as you found out). If you end up with a warped blade after a quench the best option I've found is to temper the blade, then re-temper the blade again with some bending pressure: www.bladeforums.com/threads/straighten-during-the-temper.838681/
Thanks for posting this mistakes and all, it's really important to show both failure and success. Good luck, I look forward to your future videos!
Maybe use oil, cuz your machete is thin you should quench only the edge if you use water and the heat is not equal try moving the blade while heating in charcoal
You're not getting nearly enough heat from your makeshift forge. You should fill the bottom with coal and put a top on it. Cut a hole in the side and use that to insert the blade, and when you insert the blade bury it in the coals. You're never going to get a good quench with unevenly heated blade.
Sorry man.... water quench is always unstable..especially with a thin blade but if you don’t try it you will never learn
So how would you quench a blade made from a steel that is specifically water hardening?
Oh no
How much swearing was there?