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KM-14D Knife Maker’s Heat Treating Furnace
14 ½” long, 5 ½” wide, and 4 ¼” high
KnifeKits.com is proud to be a Paragon Heat Treat Furnace dealer. We take knife making seriously, and these ovens are simply the best value and technology on the market today. When your Paragon KM-14D furnace arrives, you will begin to live the knife making adventure more fully. Now you can join that elite corps of knife makers who witness the birth of the knife. In the bright red heat of the furnace, the soul of the knife is born. Many furnace owners revel in testing that they put blades through tests more severe than any knife owner would dare. They test for Rockwell hardness, but they don’t stop there. They count the number of cuts a knife makes on hemp rope. They measure the foot-pounds of torque required to bend the blade to 45° or even 90°. Then they straighten the blade, slap on a handle and test it in the real world. The knife maker with a KM-series furnace can try exotic heat treating methods at his leisure. Does quenching in dry ice improve blade performance? What happens when 52100 steel is triple-quenched with a one-day wait between each quench? After this treatment, will a 52100 blade bend to 90° without chipping? What if you freeze the steel between quenches? With a Paragon furnace in your shop, all questions about heat treating formulas are settled. You find out for yourself what works and what doesn’t. Testing and heat treating is at the heart of the knife making adventure. Here is where your confidence as a knife maker takes root. No more waiting While your furnace is hardening and tempering blades, you can busy yourself grinding more knives or fitting handles. After you’ve used your Paragon furnace awhile, you will wonder how you ever got along without it. When asked to make a knife on short notice—whether for a Marine Corps awards presentation or an archaeologist on his way to Africa—you will be ready. When a custom knife is needed as a going away gift, and the recipient is leaving in three days, you will be ready. Your KM-series furnace might even pay for itself on rush orders you would otherwise have missed. Own a furnace and you alone decide when you will complete a knife. If you stay up one Friday grinding a knife, you can heat treat it that evening and deliver it Saturday morning. Just in time for a grateful wife to present to her husband on his birthday. Finishing a knife whenever you want will excite
you. You will find yourself working into the night
to complete a new design. When you send the blade
out for heat treating, the excitement of making
it is forgotten. By the time the blade returns,
you hardly remember it.
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