![]() ![]() Real important if hardening the whole thing is to temper the whole as the body and arms are hard and may be prone to failure in use. Another way to do the temper is use an oven and temper the whole thing. ![]() When I do edge quench I do move the steel back and forth in line with the body/blade of the steel. ![]() Letting the whole thing cool down while keeping the edge cool. Oh yeah I forgot to add in some people just edge quench by placing the edge edge down into a shallow pan or shovel or whatever of water. What you are doing with flint and steel strikers is the flint ( or whatever) is harder then the steel, using a sharp edge you shave off tiny particles of the steel which is what sparks. No quenching the arms of c or j style strikers. Flint and Steel track in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park is a family-friendly walk from West Head Road down to Flint and Steel Beach. If good sparks good if not good sparks then re harden this time more aggressively quenching more of the striking surface further up the face. Check with a SHARP piece of flint, chert, agate, jasper etc. With a file, a brick, sand paper whatever just to get rid of any decarburized area. Once you see a red glow on the char-cloth where it has caught a spark, start gently blowing on. Strike the steel in downward motions throwing sparks down onto the char cloth. Hold the flint and steel striker directly above the char cloth and tinder bundle. Clean off the striking surface after treatment. One way to do this is to put your char cloth on or next to (touching) your tinder bundle. The arms and non striking surface not being quenched don't get hardened thus providing some shock resistance. let a little heat bleed back in if it gets to hot to touch requench the edge (I alternately occasionally just hold the edge in water until the whole thing is cool to the touch). While forging I make sure I have a flat (as forged) smooth striking surface, normalize the piece after forging, edge quench just the striking surface. Unless making a bright oval striker the following is the main way I do the strikers. Paul provides meeting space for Chess Club, biweekly board meetings, and owns. Figure I'll chime in here as I do a lot of strikers for Fort Vancouver. One of the pillars Flint & Steel formed upon, St. ![]()
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