Steel doesn’t hide your mistakes. If a cutter rubs, the sound turns shrill. If you linger on a thin edge, straw colors creep in and tell you exactly how hot ...

A lot of colloquial words that we might use when describing something’s durability take on extremely specific meanings when a materials scientist or blacksmith uses them. Things like “strength”, ...

Whether heat treatment is carded out in-house or subcontracted, procedures must be drawn up and adhered to if the heat treatment process is to be properly controlled. Subcontract heat treatment should ...

Cold-work steels are high carbon steels containing low alloy additions of molybdenum, tungsten, chromium and manganese. The additions of these alloys allow oil quenching with less distortion and they ...