Re: No. 8 blade availability???

Lest this post leaves anyone thinking that we harden our blades with a
torch...

That 'advanced method of heat treating in atmosphere controlled ovens' is
actually the standard method of production heat treating and has been for a
long time. The only time anyone uses a torch that I know of would be the
dyer with a one-off small item. Our blades have been hardened in atmosphere
controlled ovens and mar-quenched from the beginning (that's 1982, in case
anyone was wondering).

Ron Hock
HOCK TOOLS
www.hocktools.com


> > A good friend of mine sez to me - buy the best and cry only once.
> > I've gotten carbon steel and cryo/A2 irons from Ron. They are
> > unmatched in my ten or so years of planing lots and lots and lots of
> > wood. I have the A2 in a #6. Life is too short to use something less
> > capable.
> > Expensive is once, cheap is forever.
> > Humbly submitted,
> > O'Deen
>
>
> I thank you. I am considering buying the set, one eBay seller refuses to
> make a blade for me until he relocates by January, $9 difference, but he
> uses a proper high carbon steel and an advanced method of heat treating
> in atmosphere controlled ovens, compared to a "torch".
>
> By the way... me buying the numbah 8 is was the result of your advice in
> a previous thread comparing 7 and 8 planes, also mentioned in the B&G
> pages, thanks for the rightious influence!
>
> Alex
>
>

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