I have to make a few levers, I have some 1095 do I...

[Gus]

need to heat treat and temper after making them? I would use nickle silver but I don't have any on hand. I'm thinking I probably should but if there is no need to it would save me time and trouble.

When I say levers I mean just the lever for a German Springer knife.

[muskrat man]

I don't think you would need to. nickle silver is not much harder than untempered steel, there really is not much wear on them or very much stress I see no need to temper

[Gus]

thanks off to the hardware store for more jigsaw blades, a bandsaw would make my life so much easier. p.m. me on that blade MM if you're interested, maybe we can work something out.

[Gus]

well that wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. It's too bad it not NS because it looks alittle off you know how the nickel silver has that almost faint hint of gold hue when it gets worn. And the 1095 is real chrome looking, anyways it works, it looks good, case closed.

[Elvis]

A little bit of the stuff that they use to "blue" gun metal will also give nickel-silver that goldish look. It doesn't take much, but it does work.