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<blockquote data-quote="Dzaw" data-source="post: 144871" data-attributes="member: 7794"><p>Actullt, chambering pre hardening isn't going to work very well. Any steel will move when hardening.</p><p></p><p>However, solid carbide tooling may not be the way to go. Crucible offers some really cool high speed tool steels that should get the job done quite nicely, as they are more than twice as hard as the barrel steel, and are quite a lot tougher than solid carbide, helping to reduce the chance of breakage.</p><p></p><p>Heck, maybe when I talk to their metallurgist again, I'll ask for a job! I know their product line as well as most of their sales staff!</p><p></p><p>Not to sound too callous about it, but I'm not entirely sure I care very ,uch if the barrel maker is happy with the idea. So long as I'm willing to compensate him for the costs of extra tooling, as well as pay him for his time and expertise, I would think any reasonable buisinessperson should be satisfied with that.</p><p></p><p>I won't ever ask an expert craftsman to do anything extra without being appropriately compensated. I have had customers ask for extras on my knives that were quite a PITA to accomplish, and then **** and moan about price increases. I might sometimes give someone a break if they're respectful about it, but I do feel personally insulted if someone doesn't think my expertise is worth paying for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dzaw, post: 144871, member: 7794"] Actullt, chambering pre hardening isn't going to work very well. Any steel will move when hardening. However, solid carbide tooling may not be the way to go. Crucible offers some really cool high speed tool steels that should get the job done quite nicely, as they are more than twice as hard as the barrel steel, and are quite a lot tougher than solid carbide, helping to reduce the chance of breakage. Heck, maybe when I talk to their metallurgist again, I'll ask for a job! I know their product line as well as most of their sales staff! Not to sound too callous about it, but I'm not entirely sure I care very ,uch if the barrel maker is happy with the idea. So long as I'm willing to compensate him for the costs of extra tooling, as well as pay him for his time and expertise, I would think any reasonable buisinessperson should be satisfied with that. I won't ever ask an expert craftsman to do anything extra without being appropriately compensated. I have had customers ask for extras on my knives that were quite a PITA to accomplish, and then **** and moan about price increases. I might sometimes give someone a break if they're respectful about it, but I do feel personally insulted if someone doesn't think my expertise is worth paying for. [/QUOTE]
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