What face mill do u use???

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(03-11-2015, 04:22 PM)PixMan Wrote: Everything you just listed fits together and would be the PERFECT for the task!

If they'll ship to you and you can afford the investment, you'll have zero regrets.

That grade isn't ideal for austenitic (300 series, non-magnetic) stainless steel but at lower speeds it would work. Being in the knife business I would guess that you're using the ferritic/martensitic stainless steels known over here as 410, 410, 430 & 440C or 440F. The grade is perfect for those too.

Best of luck,

Ken

Hello there KEN
Sorry about the delay in responding. Been doing my homework in the interim.

I am a bit chuffed at the moment, (is an understatement) !!!
Like I told DAVE, Walter does have a local distributor and we have Ordered our F4080 and the ODMT Inserts to go with. They promised Delivery in about a week. We can wait, excitedly, hopefully.

Heck Man, U one knowledgeable Machinist as well, seeing U talk hardening Steels fluently !!!

440C has long been the Industry standard. Whilst we are lucky in that we are between U Guys, the Europeans and the Asians, we have a wide choice of Steels from the best in the business. We have used ATS34 from HITACHI, JAPAN which is good for Collector-Grade Knives. Our current well-used N690 from Bohler is the Austrian equivalent of 440c. With (cryogenic) Liquid nitrogen quenching we have achieved 65 Rockwell, but keep this figure lower for ease of Customer sharpening and reducing the overall brittleness at the same time. (Without gloating, we are maybe one of the rare Knifemakers in the Country owning our own full-sized ROCKWELL Hardness Tester.) Bohler has, from about a year or two, also launched their own CPM Graded ELMAX which suddenly shot into fame in the States and is used by U Guys top production Knife companies. They are all ranting and raving about this steel.

CPM - Crucible Powder Metallurgy Steels are all the rave in the States now-a-days. There's CPM 3-V, CPM 4-V, CPM S30V, CPMS35-VN, CPM 154 (Old 154CM) etc which outdo any of the older popular Grades because of newer, better research and manufacturing methods. Heck Man, there's even CPM D2 !!
What more could one need !!! Need to stop now before this gets too far.

'Tis been good conversing with an erudite Machinist for a change.
LORD BLESS
aRM