Silver Steel

[VicParticipant @vic]

[VicParticipant @vic]

Anyone tried forging it? I’m guessing it’s going to be tougher to work than mild steel. Also, is it Basically the same as O1?

[VicParticipant @vic]

Update. Actually I’ve been thinking about this some more and I can machine what I have in mind rather than using than resorting to heating it up and using my anvil!

[MikeKParticipant @mikek40713]

I thought you gents called "silver steel" what us yanks call "drill rod"? Which would be O1 and W1, for me. I forged it once. I only needed a slight dogleg in a piece and it was tough.

[Neil LickfoldParticipant @neillickfold44316]

Silver steel forges just fine, as long as it is still above red hot when struck by the hammer. After shaping, I have then heated the part in an oven an and then cooled slowly in the oven. After this have finished the shape and then heat treated it. Silver steel I have always called Stubbs W1, the water quench material. The oil Quench I always call it O1 and Not Silver steel.

[Philip RoweParticipant @philiprowe13116]

Forging a piece of silver steel was the very first exercise I did as an apprentice nearly sixty years ago. Under the tutoring of the apprentice instructor four of us had to produce a fairly basic screwdriver from 1/4" dia silver steel, the end being flared out to maybe 3/8" wide. The other end was forged into a tapered square section which was later burnt into a file handle, lots of smoke and smells! The blade was then hardened and tempered, polished and I'm sorry to say never ever used as a screwdriver but it did teach me quite a lot about silver steel. Phil

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