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Heat Treat a Homemade Knife - PEP BB metalworking.straw.heattreat

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in Metal Working.

For this BB, you will be heat treating a homemade knife!

Here is one way to do it:


To document your completion of the BB, provide the photos or video (<2 min) of the following:
 - Proof that the knife is homemade
 - Partway through heat treating
 - The finished heat treated homemade knife
 - Cut something that proves the knife edge is hardened (wailing away on hard wood, etc)
 - Prove the knife is still sharp
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