Work Hardening Copper #diy #blacksmith #forge #copper

[eliasjanssens]

Small correction, the process you are describing is called quenching. annealing is when you heat up a metal and allow it to cool down slowly.


Quenching sets the crystal structure of the metal to the phase/temperature it was at before quenching.
Annealing allows the metal to go back to it’s basic and most stable crystal structure.


In most metals, quenching increases the stress and annealing releases the stress.
Not sure about copper, material science class was a while ago 😊

[Macklyn]

Great explanation. I never really understood how that works until now. Thank you

[DOWNUNDER.]

Dull red is all you need for annealing

[Mantis_Real]

Can you aneal it multiple times or does it work less and less and eventually not work anymore?

[godunknown]

Carbonize 1095 with gear oil then beat reheat quinch love the squeeze as it shrinks

[nomoreusmc]

Annealing it would be heating it up and letting it slow cool, you're quenching it.

[tbkswagg]

It's crazy soft so we ready to go cray cray

[andvil]

Thats why Ötzi could harden the edge of his copper axe by hammering the edge.

[mairoberts]

anyone else think it was still red hot when they touched it 😂 i forgor it was copper

[patrickdavis]

I used to hammer copper bowls. You are kinda right. Kinda wrong.

[DANgaming]

Copper toughens under stress, unlike people today.

[SevaHaltam]

cool idea: use this with a medium/large sized ball with a hole that can be closed and opened, put the sodium metal in the ball and throw it at someone and tell them it has candy in it

[AAMW]

Completely opposite of steel. Coper is a strange metal. How about a coer based metal? Say brass or bronze. Do you anneal the same way?

[ttonAb]

Fast cooling induces stress in metals...

[nicholasittzes]

So, I did a little digging. Copper will be annealed by heating to a dull red (glowing). Quenching is optional. Some people like to quench, since the metal will be cool enough to handle much sooner, and it tends to knock off the oxide layer that was formed during heating. However, cooling slowly will still result in annealed copper.

[TheCaddy]

Didn't this guy live with Rosanne and Dan when he dated that goth chick Darlene?

[octoflex]

You aren't annealing you're quenching.

[whydontyouaskme]

They got mad that I asked who is this overweight human

[isaacbundy]

This is not annealing this is quenching. Annealing is where you heat it up and allow it to cool very slowly, so the atoms have time to form into their proper structure. Quenching forces the atoms to cool in a more crystalline structure, resulting in a harder metal that is also more brittle. Annealing would be used if you were planning on working with a peice of steel and wanted it softer so it was easier to hammer on. Once you have your knife shape nearly finished you would heat it up and cool it rapidly in either water or oil and this is quenching. After quenching you would use the hardness of the steel to slow down the rate at which your grinders will remove material giving you more control when grinding your bevels then you would temper it to make it a little bit softer so it doesn’t crack or shatter during use and then you would do the handle and sharpening. Steel is very interesting

[urielmireles]

Dude's balding from all that hair spray he uses