Carbon Knife Steel Sheet 1084, 6 x 400 x 900 mm

Knife Making Steel Sheet, 1084 Carbon Steel in 6 x 400 x 900 mm

Size of steel is about 6 mm thick, 400 mm wide and 900 mm long.

The steel comes already annealed and ready to work.

Annealed means the steel is "soft" and workable with hand tools.

It can be drilled, filed, ground and shaped with relative ease. Look up hand filing jig on youtube for an easy to make hand filing jig for making even bevels.

This steel will need to be heat treated, either at home or by sending it away for professional heat treatment. 

This is the steel used in the carbon steel basic knife making kit.

 Heat treating 1084 Carbon Steel:

• Heat steel to non-magnetic (about 815-820 C)
• No hold time, quench as soon as hot enough
• Quench in 30-40 C canola oil for a fast, effective quench
• Temper twice, for 2 hours at 200 C (in a kitchen stove, for instance)

Optional: it is recommended to stress relieve the steel by heating it to red hot and letting it air cool a couple of times before quenching. This helps reduce stress in the steel before the (stressful) quench. If wanting to normalise to refine grain size, heat to 875 C and let air cool 3 times to black. Normalising is done if the steel has been forged, if doing stock removal this step is not required but recommended still.

showing blades after normalizing cycles, where the blades are heated and left to air cool. This is often done before quenching, helping to releave tension from the blade before quenching. It also helps reduce the grain size if the blade has been overheated and is generally a good idea.