Heat Treating Tooling with Victoria Ritter

National Curriculum Instructor, Victoria Ritter, takes a look at the heat treatment process for the 4140 tools used in forging a Darryl Nelson-style Bear Head. The companion video with John Williams discusses each tool individually. Receive our emails and monthly newsletter: https://bit.ly/3Ytmhby Sign up for our Educational Email List: https://bit.ly/3H1J0E2 to learn about future online blacksmithing classes and discussions like this one. Join ABANA: https://abana.org/join/ Donate: https://abana.org/donations/ Find us on: Facebook:   / abanaorg   Instagram:   / abanaorg   Twitter:   / abanaorg   0:00 Intro 0:33 How important are the tools? 1:09 Parent Stock Requirements 2:12 Tool Steel 4140 5:39 Tempil's Basic Guide to Ferrous Metallurgy 9:54 H13 Tool 12:24 Heat Treat Basic Principles 13:46 Annealing 19:48 Normalizing 21:40 Harden & Temper 26:40 Making Martensite 28:52 Tempering #blacksmithing #forging #heattreating #ABANA #blacksmith #artistblacksmith