Originally Posted by
Cornicus
My issue with O1 is just that it's so expensive for me. I'm just a lowly teenager, woe is me. Wages for people my age are pretty pitiful, and I just figured that 1095 would be economic to start off with. Little did I know that it's such a queen for precision quenching. I think I read something with the crystalline structure being perfect at 1550F, quenched in .5 sec? That's impossible for me, especially since I have no real way of controlling my temperature.
Trust me fellas, I'm a sucker for buying the best that I can afford, but right now, premium steels and a heat treat oven are just too top-heavy to be considered. If anyone has a spare Evenheat they want to get rid of, I'll happily take it off their hands. :rofl2: