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Well, I finished the book a few days ago. My reaction is that this book far surpasses anything else I have read on all aspects of heat treating. It could be that everything that I've previously read...

Amazon U.S. has a sale price on this book now.

Yes he does.

In the next paragraph he talks about developing an orange peel surface from using a fine grit with too much pressure on a hard carbide steel. He claims that continuing with the fine grit will only...

Wow! I really got a lot out of the chapter on normalizing and grain refinement.

I see a discussion on sub critical annealing coming up in the next chapter too.

Here is an interesting tid bit that I ran across last night regarding polishing steels containing hard carbides;

"With the finer grits the volume of material is reduced, and at some point, the...

I'm only up to page 94 out of a total of 440. So far my only complaint is that the book is so knife centric, but I guess that that is expected with a title of 'Knife Engineering'.:hmmm:

Got my copy! I'm excited to get started reading this book. Leafing through it I see many things that I'm very interested in, but I really want to read this from page one, the first time. I like the...

Dr. Larrin Thomas just came out with a new book entitled 'Knife Engineering: Steel, Heat Treating, and Geometry'

Looks great! I've been reading his blog 'knife steel nerds' for a while and had...