KNIFE / HEAT TREAT OVENS
Knife Kiln or Blade Kiln vs. Heat Treating Furnace vs. Heat Treat Oven? These names refer to a fireproof box that gets hot. No matter what you call it “the box” needs to have the capability to get to the desired temperature and stay there for the prescribed amount of time. That box or chamber must also have the ability to heat and cool down at the prescribed rate for the particular processes required. Most importantly, it must be safe, easy to operate, and last a long time. Whether it's for hobby or industrial use, our heat treating ovens and kilns are used primarily for processes called tempering, annealing, normalizing, or quenching, making them a reliable tempering oven for knife and metal work. They make a dependable knife oven and kiln for knife making - bladesmiths rely on precise heat treating to give their blades hardness and a lasting edge. These processes are all more reliably achieved with a heat-treat oven and are the standard in most metal production facilities.
So how do you make your choice?
- how much space you need,
- what temperature do you need to go to and how long to hold...
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and lastly, where can you plug it in? (How much juice do you have?)
Here is a link to a guide that you can use as a reference: The Heat-Treating Data eBook.
