hi there my own limited experience of usimg stainless steel is to not heat it too high, you probably know this already, as it tends to work harden very quickly. I have had the steel just break off mid forging.!!! I made some stair carpet rods for a client from high grade stainless as the carpet in his house was worth £20,000 and did not want to mark it with rust.!! Scale does build up on the steel and you can use a number of things to remove it, i have used a combination of an acid used by welders to remove scale and blueing and stainless steel polishing pads and stainless wire cup brushes.
As for brasses i do not have any experience in that depatment, but i am sure that you will get a good few posts on this subject. Hope this is of some help just thought i would give you my limited experience of stainless and look forward to seeing some pictures or even the design proposal.
Adrian
my limited experience of stainless
hi there my own limited experience of usimg stainless steel is to not heat it too high, you probably know this already, as it tends to work harden very quickly. I have had the steel just break off mid forging.!!! I made some stair carpet rods for a client from high grade stainless as the carpet in his house was worth £20,000 and did not want to mark it with rust.!! Scale does build up on the steel and you can use a number of things to remove it, i have used a combination of an acid used by welders to remove scale and blueing and stainless steel polishing pads and stainless wire cup brushes.
As for brasses i do not have any experience in that depatment, but i am sure that you will get a good few posts on this subject. Hope this is of some help just thought i would give you my limited experience of stainless and look forward to seeing some pictures or even the design proposal.
Adrian