The colors of incandescent steel
The blacksmiths did not wait for the invention of the ovens of quench To submit carbon steels to heat treatments, sometimes amazing accurate! Indeed, it is quite possible to find itself when the heat treatment of its blade or its piece thanks to the color of the carbon steel that is heated. This requires, of course, a sharpened eye but also from the experience. To help you, we offer a color chart of incandescent steel, which you can find below. It will help you determine the temperature of your steel if you perform its heat treatment with gas forge or charcoal forge.
Important: Always make sure to interpret these colors in a room and an atmosphere as dark as possible to not distort the results!
Download the table by clicking here!
It is also possible to do the same thing for the income step, critical process to complete the heat treatment of your knife blade: when the austeanization phase brings up the room into hardness, to the detriment of resilience, the income lowers the hardness of the whole, to win Flexible.
Download the color table of the steel to income by clicking here!
If you wondered how to know the temperature of the steel thanks to its color, you have answers! You know the house: in addition to these staining boards of the incandescent steel, we offer, for each steel shade to our range, a technical sheet detailing the temperatures and maintenance time for each stage of their heat treatment.
