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The red steel plate was clipped out of the fire and put on the anvil. After hitting it with a heavy hammer, the steel plate broke.
Yang Yu frowned, picked up a short steel plate, and compared it with the temperature comparison table attached to the wall. Yang Yu smiled bitterly and threw the steel plate into the bucket beside him.
"The temperature is high again, and I still can't grasp it accurately. The requirements for the temperature of the bearing steel are too strict. If it burns too much, it will become crispy. Once it is smashed, it will be broken. It is difficult to forge together if the temperature is not enough, and it is easy to break. It is really difficult."
I've been sitting aside watching Yang Yu's old man swinging iron and agree, "Yes, as long as you are sure, this bearing steel knife is hard and fast, which is quite good steel, but it is difficult to hit it with other steel. I used to try to hit a guy with steel, but I haven't done it. "
"We generally say that the bearing steel is gcr15, which is a high-carbon chromium alloy steel. The forging temperature range is narrow. It is not easy to match with other steel, but it can also be made into sandwich steel or pattern steel. I used to see others do it. Although it is a little difficult, since others can do it, I can do it anyway. It has to be done for him."
After saying with a smile, he picked out a piece of bearing steel from the prepared steel. Yang Yu walked to the furnace again, took a deep breath, picked up the steel plate and put it into the burning fire, and then turned it back and forth. Everything was done according to the strictest procedure Yang Yu knew, for fear of burning again.
Don't get me wrong. Although Yang Yu is beating iron, he is not a blacksmith. He is just a knife friend who wants to forge his ideal good knife with his own hands. Yang Yu loves to play with knives, but he doesn't know any knife skills, and he doesn't make a living on the edge of the knife. Yang Yu just simply likes knives with sharp blades. The knife can bring Yang Yu Joy, the simplest happiness, that's all.
There are many people like Yang Yu who love knives. Their kind of people have a name called "knife friends". Yang Yu is one of many knife friends, and Yang Yu's financial resources do not allow him to buy the good knife he likes at will. You should know that the price of a good knife is not expensive. Although Yang Yu's bag is not embarrassed, it is unrealistic to buy every knife he likes, so Yang Yu's way to play with knives is to buy his favorite knife. , use it for a while. After having a comprehensive understanding and understanding of the knife, if you still like it very much, you will stay. If you don't have the original enthusiasm, you will sell the knife to other knife friends. Therefore, although Yang Yu hides few knives, he can be said to have a lot of research on knives, but Yang Yu always feels that he plays with knives. After so many years, it is always a pity that there is no unique knife in the world that only belongs to itself.
In order to have a knife that only belongs to himself, Yang Yu designed a knife by himself, and then asked the swordsmith to make it for him as required, but what is hateful is that after Yang Yu sent the drawings and money to a swordsman he knew, the swordsman evaporated from the world and could no longer be contacted.
It's enough to have the money, but the knife that has been waiting for many days is gone, but it makes Yang Yu very depressed. In anger, Yang Yu decided to make it by himself.
Yang Yu spent a lot of energy and found a blacksmith shop that was about to close permanently in the suburbs of the city where he lived. He negotiated the price with an old blacksmith who planned to retire permanently. After borrowing the blacksmith shop for a few days, Yang Yu spent a lot of money to buy one online. Some steel suitable for forging knives, and Yang Yu also knows that he has no experience, so he bought the most convenient steel plate materials. It only needs simple forging to make a knife, and Yang Yu also paid attention to it. Even if the knife blanks directly are rough, it doesn't matter. At worst, he will use the grinding wheel. The refinement is done.
With a solid theoretical foundation and a relatively low starting point, Yang Yu has achieved success for the first time, but in areas of great interest, Yang Yu likes to be perfect, and making knives is addictive. Therefore, in the following days, Yang Yu changed from a knife friend who enjoys knives. He became a forging swordsman who made iron and knives.
In order to make better works, Yang Yu can say that he took great pains. What he lacked was practical experience, so Yang Yu went to visit famous teachers. Fortunately, Yang Yu has been in the circle of knife friends for a long time, and the circle of knife friends is not big. Yang Yu can easily find some famous swordsmen to learn, just to get on The travel expenses are just going back and forth across the country. They are all friends who are familiar with the Internet. After going there, there are still people who take care of it. Yang Yu, who already likes to travel, can play and learn things. Naturally, he enjoys it.
After a long time, Yang Yu is not only a famous knife friend, but also a great person with excellent performance. He is also the number one figure in the circle of knife friends, and the knife made by Yang Yu is indeed good. It is not only good-looking, but also quite awesome. This can be seen from Yang Yu's continuous evaluation video. Come on, but what makes many knife friends depressed is that the knives made by Yang Yu are only given but not sold. Only some of Yang Yu's friends will get good knives given by Yang Yu.
Although Yang Yu is recognized as a rising star in the circle of knife friends, Yang Yu is not complacent, but makes more efforts to improve his level. Knife making is just a game for Yang Yu, but Yang Yu thinks that playing is also the best, and there is no omnipotent knife in the world. All kinds of knives have their own advantages, and various knife-making techniques also have their own advantages. If you want to be the best knife in various fields, you can only use different materials and different techniques to adapt to one. The knife is required in a certain job, so as to achieve the corresponding best, so Yang Yu has to keep learning and practicing.
What Yang Yu is doing now is to make steel with gorgeous patterns after folding and forging two steels with different carbon content. Modern science and technology have developed, and all kinds of steels are also emerging one after another. All kinds of steels have the advantages of various steels, but the steels suitable for forging knives are still carbon steels with relatively simple components. Although those alloy steels that are difficult to forge are difficult to forge may not be good after making knives, although the composition is simple. Single carbon steel, but as long as the method of forging and quenching is appropriate, the knife performance made of the simplest carbon steel is still the best, while pattern steel is the kind of steel with both performance and beauty.
Forging pattern steel is very simple and difficult. It is because it is difficult to make two or more steel into one piece of pattern steel. It is difficult to forge beautiful patterns, and you have to take into account good performance, but it is not so easy, although Yang Yu is now A veteran also has a good chance of failure. For those ordinary knifemakers, it is no longer easy to be able to forge simple pattern steel, but for Yang Yu, if his work of opening the furnace and steelmaking was not too exaggerated for his long-term blacksmith shop, Yang Yu would not have just studied how to forge difficult pattern steel now.
Because the biggest difficulty of forging bearing steel is the temperature control, in order to make the steel always be forged in the best temperature range, Yang Yu can only put the steel plate into the furnace to heat it over and over again, take it out and then fold it over again and over again to fold it and put it back a few times. Compared with ordinary The hard work of steel is not a little bit. Fortunately, the steel that Yang Yu uses to match the bearing steel to make pattern steel is carbon seven. This kind of steel does not require high temperature, which makes Yang Yu face much less difficult.
When a steel plate jointly forged by bearing steel and carbon seven is finally formed, and after checking that there is no problem, although it is not a big deal, the most difficult step for Yang Yu has been completed. The rest of the work is to reprocess the steel plate and Yang Yu wants a knife shape. Yang Yu wiped the sweat on his face. He said excitedly, "Look, it's done."
I've been looking at Yang Yu's old man, the boss of the blacksmith's shop, and sincerely praised: "Xiao Yang is awesome. I've been fighting iron all my life. I've also hit a lot of kitchen knives and pig knives, but when it comes to this knife, it's much worse than you. These days, it depends on you to make knives when I have nothing to do. But I learned a lot, and I didn't expect to learn new things when I got old, but it's a pity that I don't need what I have learned.
Yang Yu smiled and waved his hand: "You are always a blacksmith, doing everything and making knives, but I specialize in how to make knives. This is called specializing in art. It's different and different. If you let me do something else, I can't do it."
The old man smiled and said, "Ok, don't comfort me. If you can't compare with it, you can't compare it. Among other things, I don't understand what you said. I haven't heard of it. It's only you intellectuals who can do it. Come on, let's stop chatting. The weather is changing. If you return it, hurry up. I'll clean it up here.
Yang Yu looked up and found that the sky was already covered with dark clouds. Although it was not too late, it was very dark and there was a faint thunder. Anyway, he had to go back. It was better to leave early.
"Ok, please clean it up all the time. Ah, by the way, today this is a board with running water lines, which is relatively simple. I can do it myself. Tomorrow I want to make a torsion pattern or ladder pattern or something. I can't do it alone. I have to ask you for your help at that time."
The old man waved his hand: "Why are you so polite? I'll help you do it tomorrow. Let's go. Don't get caught in the rain. Don't catch a cold if you sweat all over today."
After saying goodbye to the old man, Yang Yu hurriedly left the blacksmith's shop. In order not to get caught in the rain, Yang Yu, who was hungry, just bought a bite of food and stood at the bus stop to wait, but there were few buses on the outskirts of the city. Seeing the dark clouds getting closer and closer, the wind It is getting bigger and bigger, but there is never a trace of the bus.
There are more and more people waiting at the station. After the already crowded bus finally arrived at the station, they were afraid that the people who could not squeeze up rushed up and squeezed the bus into a can of sardines with great difficulty. Yang Yu, who didn't like to be crowded with people, stood aside. When no one robbed him again, the bus There is not even a place to accommodate one person.
After the bus closed the door and left, Yang Yu was left alone in the extremely noisy station. At this time, the rain began to fall, and the thunder sounded more densely. When Yang Yu was hesitating whether to find a place to hide to avoid being struck by lightning, a flash of lightning struck and successfully hit Yang Yu was caught, so that Yang Yu no longer had to wait for the bus or hide from the rain.
After being hit by lightning, there was only a pile of black carbides left where Yang Yu had just stood. Even if anyone saw it, he would not think that these inconspicuous things once belonged to a big living person. Yang Yu disappeared without a trace, as if no one like him had ever appeared in the world.