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Got any good recipes?
Howdy gentlemen! Santa was good to me this year, he gave me a heattreat oven with digital controls! Now that I have it what do I do with it? Anyone got some good recipes for A2, D2 and O-1 that will make a tough resiliant knife with good edge holding on each of these steels?? Would be much appreciated! OH! and ATS-34 too! Thanks everyone. |
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Thanks Janet! |
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I want one!! Oh, nevermind, it'd make my shop too hot and melt the snow off of my roof.... |
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just remember that this is an old english translation from a spanish recipe.Translated from "Libro de Cozina", a spanish recipe book. 1529 edition (that's *year*, not latest edition) Roast Cat As It Should Be Prepared Take a cat that should be plump: and cut its throat, and once it is dead cut off its head, and throw it away for this is not to be eaten; for it is said that he who eats the brains will lose his own sense and judgement. Then skin it very cleanly, and open it and and clean it well; and then wrap it in a clean linen cloth and bury it in the earth where it should remain for a day and a night; and then take it out and put it on a spit; and roast it over the fire, and when beginning to roast, baste it with good garlic and oil, and when you are finished basting it, beat it well with a green branch; and this should be done until it is well roasted, basting and beating; and when it is roasted carve it as if it were a rabbit or kid and put it on a large plate; and take the garlic and oil mixed with good broth so that it is coarse, and pour it over the cat and you can eat it for it is a good dish. ---------------------------------- : |
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I'll have it my way at Burger King, thanks! |
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Heat Treat Recipes
Janet: On a more serious note, my advice is to get busy and calibrate your furnace using either high quality ceramic cones, Tem-Pil pellets, or, better yet, a digital panel meter with a high temperature thermocouple. You may be surprised by the results. My furnaces specified 1% accuracy, but, did not deliver that over the entire range, and, remember that 1% at 2000F is still 20 degrees-enough to matter. Once you get the data on what your furnace really does, you can follow the published specs for whatever steels you use-generally, stay around the middle of the temperature ranges provided until you get consistent, repeatable results. Do check the hardness of every blade on a reliable Rockwell tester-it is the only way to know where you are ending up. Remember, heat treating is a science, and, IMO, is best approached as such. That way, you can achieve consistent results, which can be evaluated through real-world testing until you develop your own formulas that give you the results you want. Have fun RJ Martin |
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Re: Heat Treat Recipes
Dont think this is exactly what you are looking for, but it is so cold here at the moment, this sounds good. www.bmcneil.com/chili.html |
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