The Perfect Oven For Knife Making

The Hot Shot 1200K is a single chamber, 240V multi-purpose oven that is perfect for blacksmithing and knife making. This size oven allows you to do multiple blades at once to be as efficient as possible. Take the guess work out of planning around outsourced Heat Treating and do it in house. Built in the USA, with the highest quality components, and engineered by makers for makers. Hot Shot is excited to offer an oven that not only is cool to the touch, but also offers an industry leading mechanical design.

Heat treating knives is done to harden the steel for sufficient use and to not cause any damage or weakness to the knife. Owning your own oven allows you to heat treat on your time and not have to wait for the heat treating facility.

What is heat treating?Heat treating can improve the strength, durability and reduce wear on material. It is the process of heating metal to a certain temperature, ramping the temperature(s) at a certain rate of time, soaking or holding it at the temperature(s) and then cooling it.

Why heat treat?The purpose of heat treating is to bring steel to a hardened state. The correct hardness depends on the application of the steel being treated.

Why would I want my own oven to heat treat?The main reason you would want to do your own heat treating is to save time and money. Heat treating facilities can often be backed up, expensive and require certain size batches of material to be done at one time. Heat treating knives allows the knife to get to a hardness level that will not cause the knife to bend, get damaged or cause any weak parts.