I dabbled in knife making several years ago, turned out a few knives that I was happy with but have not had time to take this up since. I sent a couple of blades to Hills Heat Treating in Bayswater, they were very helpful, reasonably priced and happy to deal with a hobby knife maker- I got the impression they did this a lot.
A project that I have on the slowburner at present is a bunch of custom archery broadheads. I've ordered some RWL34 stainless for the blades as I was very happy with this stuff in a couple of my knives. I looked up Hills heat treatment with a view to sending the finished blades to them for hardening but it appears they have gone out of business. There appear to be several businesses around offering heat treatment but their websites give the impression that they are focussed on heavy industry. Does anyone know a mob that offer heat treatment and are happy to deal with the little bloke? I don't do enough of this to even contemplate getting a kiln etc myself.


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