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  1. dbeck

    Question about heat treating

    He can’t get anyone to make them so he is out. I tried.
  2. dbeck

    Question about heat treating

    Yikes. Forging is a whole other skill I don’t know if I have time in my life to learn. Maybe it was to hot? This 1/8 still rod worked real nice. It cooled fast but forged and hardened nice.
  3. dbeck

    Hello everyone

    Thank you. Someday I would be honored if someone wanted to pay for something I engraved. But for now I have Christmas covered. Thanks for your kind words.
  4. dbeck

    Hello everyone

    Thank you. I made the update. I can’t say enough how much fun I’m having right now. Soaking all of this new info up.
  5. dbeck

    Question about heat treating

    I have O1 for the tools I’m making. I made a blade type flat punch for background work today and just heat treated the working end. Worked great.
  6. dbeck

    Question about heat treating

    When making punches and background tools out of drill rod do you heat treat the entire tool or just the working tip? Thanks in advance. Derek
  7. dbeck

    Hello everyone

    My name is Derek and I am just getting started (1 yearish). I have been poking around on this site for just a couple weeks and have already learned so much and as I was driving back to work from picking up some O1 1/8 drill rod to make some background dotting tools I learned about on here I...

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