Originally Posted by
Eric Dippold
Thanks for all the advise. My thought on drawing temper to blue was to reduce the chance of chips and if still to soft re-harden and re-temper to a cooler temp, I think maybe I'll start at purple. It doesn't appear to be laminated, the finish on it is pretty rough, I'm not sure that it's not home made, but it's still got some age to it. My fear is that if is home made the they might have used low carbon steel to make it. luckily, even if it doesn't harden I don't chop to many mortises that it bothers me to resharpen more often. I live in a small town in southeastern Alaska, not to many people into hand tools around here, even though I try to preach the gospel.