Making a Stainless Steel Hunting Knife | Heat Treating AEB-L

In this video I'll be making a stainless steel hunting knife out of AEB-L stainless steel! This is my first venture into an all-stainless blade! Come check out how I do the heat treating of AEB-L steel (details below)

The heat treat regiment for this knife:
1) Heat oven to 1350. Place knife in stainless steel foil pouch and soak at 1350 for 2 hours, let air cool. This anneals them.
2) Heat oven to 1950, place blade (in pouch) into oven and soak for 15 mins. Plate quench and apply compressed air.
3) Remove blade from pouch and place between blocks of dry ice for at least an hour.
4) Temper at 400 for 2 hours, twice.

[albertledesma]

What a stunning work of art! Lovin’ this channel and all your great layman’s explanations.

[TyrellKnifeworks]

The heat treat regiment for this knife: 1) Heat oven to 1350. Place knife in stainless steel foil pouch and soak at 1350 for 2 hours, let air cool. This anneals it. 2) Heat oven to 1950, place blade (in pouch) into oven and soak for 15 mins. Plate quench and apply compressed air. 3) Remove blade from pouch and place between blocks of dry ice for at least an hour. 4) Temper at 400 for 2 hours, twice.

[blauertknives]

Abe-l is my stainless of choice. Takes a great edge

[sudo_nym]

That’s a really nice looking knife! A real cutter, too 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻

[TheRedhawke]

That is a beautiful knife, great work sir.

[ShelleyRaskin]

Thanks for this, I have been eyeing up AEB-L for some time and am very tempted to make the jump.

[jblueforge]

Great work lovr tge vids keep em coming!!

[markboyer]

Really enjoy your videos and knives. Please, when you are using the miter gauge to do cutoffs on the table saw, clamp a block to the fence well in front of the blade and set your distance from that block. Then you won't have any issue with binding the cutoff between the blade and fence and potential kick back.

[mcrich]

I'm digging through the Chum bucket and I need a refresher on this topic. 😂

[dimitrov]

Well done! What Rockwell hardness did you reach?

[brysonalden]

Nice build, sir! I still like the idea of using your plate quencher as a double-duty warp remover. Not that any of my blades ever warp, mind you!

[neilyakuza]

Another way to cryo harden a stainless steel knife is to make a trough of dry ice and acetone. this brings the temperature down really far, and adds even further harness to the knife.

[MNSmiths-onqz]

quick question, I am going to try out sone AEB-L and do not know how thick of quench plates to use. love the videos

[NagelHausForge]

Great video man, as always! I am getting ready to use AEB-L for the first time for a dive knife project and am curious if you find that the steel has good corrosion resistance? I would assume it does but I can't find a whole lot online about that aspect!

[boogiemman]

Hi Tyrell, is this knife AEB-L Stainless Steel)for sale ?

[piskoe]

Hey, sweet looking knife tho! How did u finish the handle? Which products do u use? Best wishes from Austria

[darrell]

Do you think it's possible to do gold inlay in a stainless blade? Maybe on the bolster if I do an edge quench ...

[evanpiquette]

Loving this channel! Just started my first ever knife build which also happens to be made from stainless. If I may ask, in this video, what are you doing for those few seconds between grinds? Are you cooling the blade with water or oil? Is that a always a good idea when grinding the bevel?

[virtualvegan]

are the handle scales seen in this video stabilized? I bought a bunch of unstabilized hard wood from a hardwood store and use them in knives but I am unsure of how good they are really.

[dimmacommunication]

isn't quenching made in oil? I don't understand the aluminium block part