Chapter 32: Covering the Earth and Burning the Blade

"Shoot, shoot, just rest assured, not a single shot will fall, and when the time comes, let the people of the organizing committee see a complete process."

Guo Shugui said to Li Zhenhua who was walking in front.

Li Zhenhua carried the soil and returned to the blacksmith shop, putting the raw soil dug up together with the previous materials.

Liu Xiaodong put the two tools he was holding in the corner of the wall, and then came to Li Zhenhua's side.

Seeing that Li Zhenhua was holding a measuring tool, fiddling with the prepared raw materials.

"What are you preparing for? I don't understand it?

It's charcoal, it's coal, it's dirt that's been dug up. ”

In the face of Liu Xiaodong's question, Li Zhenhua answered Liu Xiaodong's question while weighing these various raw materials.

"Hehe, I don't understand, I'm making something for quenching,

I call this the earth-covered burning blade, do you know what the earth-covered burning blade is?

This is a unique quenching method, in fact, the principle is very simple, that is, only the blade is quenched, and the blade is not quenched elsewhere.

I'll explain it to you as I go, you see! ”

Li Zhenhua said that the movements in his hands did not stop, but took a measuring cup and put some iron powder in it.

IMMEDIATELY, IN LI ZHENHUA'S EYES, HE SAW THE WEIGHT OF IRON POWDER, IRON POWDER: 1000G.

Pour the iron powder from the measuring cup into a basin and use the measuring cup to measure the other ingredients.

After a while, the basin was poured with iron powder, raw earth, borax, charcoal powder, and toner, all of which were weighed according to the ratio given by the eye of analysis.

Li Zhenhua held an iron rod and stirred it in the basin, and the various raw materials in the basin were fully fused together.

Take the gourd and scoop it in the water tank on the side, scoop out a scoop of water, and pour it into the basin.

The little iron rod played its role again, and just stirred in the basin, and saw that all kinds of things in the basin turned into a basin of mud under the mixture of water.

"Look, fat man, this is the clay that will be applied to the body of the knife for a while, and then the blade will be covered and put in the furnace to be heated.

When the mud-coated blade is burned to a certain temperature, I put it directly into the water.

In this way, the exposed blade can be quickly cooled down, and the purpose of quenching has been achieved.

As for the part coated with mud, because there is mud blocking it, this part is not quenched and still maintains toughness. ”

Li Zhenhua said, the movements of his hands were not affected in the slightest.

Liu Xiaodong and Guo Shugui were on the side, looking like they were being taught.

Li Zhenhua took a small spatula, dug out some mud from the basin, and then applied it on the top of the knife.

After a while, the blade was covered with mud, and of course the position of the blade was left open.

Li Zhenhua took out a special long ruler with a wavy shape from the side, and scraped it close to the blade.

I saw that a very smooth wavy line appeared on the part of the knife near the blade.

Li Zhenhua turned on the electric heating furnace that had been preheated a long time ago, and put the blade of the knife, which had already been tied with iron wire, into the heating furnace.

Set the temperature and the next thing is to wait for the specific quenching temperature to be reached.

More than ten minutes passed, and the mud that had been smeared on the body had already solidified on the knife body under the high temperature.

And the exposed blade part has also been burned red by the heat in the heating furnace.

Opening the furnace door, Li Zhenhua held an iron hook and hooked the wire on the handle of the knife.

The knife was taken out and exposed to the air, looking at the temperature displayed in the eyes, just right for this quenching.

Li Zhenhua didn't say a word, and went directly to the sink full of water.

Immediately afterwards, the knife was immersed in the groundwater, and the top of the sink became foggy again.

When the knife comes into contact with water, the temperature of the exposed blade drops rapidly.

After a while, Li Zhenhua looked into the sink.

I saw the position of the blade in the sink, which showed in Li Zhenhua's eyes that the blade had reached a hardness of 58.

Remove the knife from the sink, take the knife and place it on the real table, and use a small hammer to knock off the covering layer on the top of the knife that has hardened into bricks.

Then the whole thing was presented in front of the three of them.

Liu Xiaodong is also curious, and he is a little unclear about Li Zhenhua's clay burning blade quenching this time.

When you see the knife, you feel for the hilt.

Just when Liu Xiaodong's hand was about to touch the knife.

"Be careful with your skin, your hands will be burned in a while, but I shouldn't have failed to warn you!"

When Liu Xiaodong heard Li Zhenhua's words, he immediately withdrew his outstretched hand.

When I withdrew, I saw that Liu Xiaodong was still muttering:

"It's not all quenched, and it's not that hot to look at this knife! Why can't you let me experience it first?"

It was cold on the knife anvil, and when he saw that the temperature of the knife was dropping to the point where he could touch it with his hands, Li Zhenhua said to Liu Xiaodong.

"Go up and get it, let you feel it first, remember to send it to me later, I'll prepare the things for later."

Saying that, Li Zhenhua walked to the corner of the wall and moved the long bench to the center of the courtyard.

Back in the house on the first floor, he came out with a wad of sandpaper and sat down on the bench.

Liu Xiaodong was also very discerning, and handed the knife in his hand to Li Zhenhua.

"It feels better than it works, and the handle is too uncomfortable to hold."

Li Zhenhua looked at Liu Xiaodong, a fat man, with eyes like a fool.

"Grass, it's strange that it's comfortable, don't you look at it, is the handle of the knife installed?"

After saying that, Li Zhenhua didn't rub it anymore, and when he got the knife, he still had the same set as before, opening V, cutting the blade, grinding and polishing.

After waiting for Li Zhenhua to be busy again for two hours, a dogleg knife without a handle was presented in front of the three of them.

Now this knife, as long as the handle is done again, it is a finished knife.

It's okay to chop melons and vegetables, even if you take this knife to the battlefield and fight, you won't drop the chain.

A handful of fried steel made from pig iron, and then folded and forged by fried steel to make out the pattern steel (100 steel),

Finally, the Gurkha knife made of patterned steel was placed on the cabinet on the first floor by Li Zhenhua.

There is also a piece of flannel cloth under the blade, for fear of spoiling the blade that has just been polished.

"Huazi, now that this knife is finished, do you want to call the courier brother next and ask him to come to pick up the parcel!"

Guo Shugui took a camera from the side, and the lens was replaced with a macro lens.

Patting all kinds of details on the body, any scratch of this knife at this moment,

can be shown under the lens of the camera.

"The next thing is to send the courier, we can't let the courier brother come over,

Let's go straight to the courier station, and when we get there, I'm going to watch them and pack our knives!

Otherwise, I don't worry about whether the courier brother will pack this knife according to my requirements. ”

The three of them took the knife, Liu Xiaodong drove, and drove towards the express station.