how to treat tool steel 1

[Hedricktools]

i have a project that requires the treating of tool steal.
the product is .375"x2"x2" cutting knives for the wood working industries. after machining is completed.
Could some one help me gather the information.

thanks

 

[lgearhart]

Hello Hedricktools!
Uddeholm has a nice brochure on heat treating of tool steels on the web. Go to

http://www.uddeholm.com/UTAB/

and click on the Information Sheets button and follow the trail from there. Also extensive are the files that Timken-Latrobe has put on the web (Thank you, Scott!). These you can find at

http://www.timken.com/products/specialtysteel/engineering/tech_info/techtips.asp,

where you can download pdf files or send away for them.

If you want more information, I think that Roberts, Krauss, and Kennedy's book TOOL STEELS is without peer, and is available from the ASM International website, at

http://www.asm-intl.org/Template.cf...Ecommerce/ProductDisplay.cfm&ProductID=11421.

You can probably get a lot more information from the supplier of the tool steel, as well: it has been my experience that many of them know of what they speak.

Hope this helps!

Lee