I’m a huge fan of “forged in fire” and it seems to me that technology hasn’t done a great job of improving this craft. I mean except for things like a power hammer, how is it possible that we’re not able to control a quench.
There are so many “castrophical failures”from what seems to be competent bladesmith. I don’t understand how in 2020 there are still variable in that process that we are unable to control.
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I’m french so sorry in advance if there are error in the text.
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It seems like technology have not improved forging is because it makes for good rating on TV.
We’re getting so good in metallurgical forging that it would became boring if we were to show the real metallurgical technology of 2020.
We’re able to know the calculate to a close percentage the shrinkage during forging and since you mentioned quenching, we can do such precise case hardening that you’ll get a uniform thin layer of super hard surface while retaining the softness in the core. We’re talking about millimeter tolerances if you’re not too fussy about it.
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