Cold forging of Knife Steel - Performance Improvement? Media

An introduction to what cold forging is, along with a new set of experiments on cold forging of 52100.

Written versions of this information:
New 52100 study - https://knifesteelnerds.com/2024/11/25/testing-cold-forged-52100-knife-steel/
Cold forging - https://knifesteelnerds.com/2019/03/11/cold-forging-of-steel/

00:00 Intro
00:18 What is Cold Forging?
03:34 Potential Benefits and Drawbacks
04:27 Trips for Cold Forging
05:37 Previous studies
07:02 New Experiments on 52100
08:32 Annealed hardness
09:56 Heat Treated hardness
11:12 Toughness
12:38 Should There Be More Improvement?
15:08 Conclusions