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Heard a guy at the hardware store telling a newbie to quench high carbon steel in water for a faster cool
Saw the same guy a week later with a blade that had cracked clean through the middle. That's a surefire way to ruin your work and waste good steel. What's the worst piece of bad advice you've heard passed around?
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spencer_ross21d ago
Read a forum post where someone swore you could fix a warp by just bending the blade back cold after tempering. That's a good way to get a sudden, dangerous snap. People forget that steel has memory and internal stress. You just end up making a weak spot that'll fail later.
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the_amy18d ago
Right up there with "more heat fixes everything" until your blade looks like a potato chip.
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ivan21121d ago
Oh man, that's a classic. That's like the advice @spencer_ross heard about bending a warp cold, just a different flavor of steel murder. Some folks treat metal like it's clay and forget it can just give up and break. What's the next terrible tip, using a blowtorch for the temper?
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