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I happened upon a very old treadle lathe for turning wood. I am building a fly wheel for it (old one missing) I am also hoping to forge out some old style tools for lathe chisels/knives. My only experience forging was junior high school making a cold chisel and about 20 years ago I forged some simple brackets for a cannon build. What I want to make is relatively simple. I have few pieces of steel rod. One is O1 steel from a supply house. They still use these old style tools in Germany and eastern Europe in production factories. I offerred to pay some blacksmiths to make the edge and got no takers. They would not even give me a price. So I am going to try it myself. Can somebody give me a step by step for hardening and then tempering. A picture of the tool is here: