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heat treating your own steel for gongs?
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<blockquote data-quote="EXPRESS" data-source="post: 583380" data-attributes="member: 1441"><p>Before anyone suggest just buying some good quality steel, or gongs I have to point out that where I live it is very difficult to get these materials and shipping gongs from the US is not even thinkable. </p><p></p><p>Last week I sent out 30 odd email to steel suppliers and the like to get 1 reply, who asked for more details then never got back to me. Frustrating. </p><p></p><p>So, I got to thinking, could it be that hard to get a half decent temper on some of the mild steel that is widely available here?</p><p></p><p>I have a large furnace and a wood fired oven that can both provide plenty of fairly stable heat, surely the worst that could happen is that a gong is too brittle and cracks??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EXPRESS, post: 583380, member: 1441"] Before anyone suggest just buying some good quality steel, or gongs I have to point out that where I live it is very difficult to get these materials and shipping gongs from the US is not even thinkable. Last week I sent out 30 odd email to steel suppliers and the like to get 1 reply, who asked for more details then never got back to me. Frustrating. So, I got to thinking, could it be that hard to get a half decent temper on some of the mild steel that is widely available here? I have a large furnace and a wood fired oven that can both provide plenty of fairly stable heat, surely the worst that could happen is that a gong is too brittle and cracks?? [/QUOTE]
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