Oh. Okay, thanks.How exactly do I bind it?
bumpWhat kind of steel did Mike use on Kobalos?
Do you drench the shafts after you heat them as well? Or does the hot/cool cycle do a sufficient job of hardening the shaft on it's own?
Each shaft was heated to a bright orange using a torch then dropped lengthwise into the oil bath. After cleaning off the shafts I did a quick test hit on a spare piece to see how hard the shaft had gotten relative to an annealed piece of O1. The annealed piece bent 90 degrees, the hardened piece snapped off very cleanly. The second stage of the process was tempering. The three shafts and test piece were placed in an oven at somewhere between 450 and 500 degrees F and left to soak for 45 minutes.
Oh I'll be doing some banging.......