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Spent $40 on an infrared thermometer for the forge and it beat my eyeballs every time
For years I judged my steel color by eye and figured that was just part of the craft. Then a guy at a hammer-in near Dayton let me borrow his $40 infrared thermometer on a batch of 1084 and I was running about 150 degrees hot on my quench temps without knowing it. My first test blade after that actually held an edge through a stump chop instead of rolling over. Idk if it's just me but I think my eyes were lying to me for a decade. Anyone else using one of these, and do you trust it more than color on the higher ranges?
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nathan5459d ago
Same thing happened to me, ran way hot on my quench for like two years and couldn't figure out why my edges kept chipping. Bought a cheap one off Amazon and turns out my "cherry red" was more like orange the whole time. Now I check it every few heats even up past non-magnetic, the numbers don't lie like my eyes do.
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