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Mike Ameling:
I don't know what steel they make those trap spring from originally, but they can be tricky to heat-treat.  It's way too easy to get them TOO hard and brittle.  Just Air-Cooling seems to work pretty good.  They end up holding an edge pretty well, but also fairly easy to re-sharpen.

But other people's experience with them may vary - as the steel may vary between springs from different trap makers.

Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands

ridjrunr:
Neat,I'd like to see any pix of the finished products.Have you done many of those?ridjrunr

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