Trailesh Bekra

Plan 🗺️ heat-treat schedules, solve for target 🎯 hardness, and log 📝 real blade tests. Trailesh Bekra is a heat-treating companion for bladesmiths and knifemakers working with carbon, low-alloy, tool 🛠️, and stainless steels. Pick a steel and build 🔨 a heat-treat schedule 🗓️ in the Forge. The app 📱 predicts edge and spine hardness from your austenitizing temperature, quench medium, and temper cycle, and explains why ❓ a schedule lands where it does. Not sure what schedule 🗓️ to use? The Solver works backward from a target 🎯 hardness. Enter your blade's spine and edge thickness and the equipment your shop actually owns, and it ranks candidate schedules by toughness, edge retention, and risk, with a trade-off chart 📊 across hundreds of feasible options. Building pattern 🔢-welded billets? The Billet tool 🛠️ models a weld-and-restack pattern step by step: layer count, carbon migration between the two steels, mass yield, and a preview of how the pattern will read on a finished blade. After the heat treat, use the Log 📝 to record what actually happened. Add Rockwell readings or file-test results, a photo 📸, and notes, and compare ⚖️ the measured hardness against the prediction. Logged blades calibrate Trailesh Bekra's predictions to your own shop's furnace and quench media. Trailesh Bekra also ships a small steel datasheet library 📚 with composition, critical temperatures, and tempering curves, plus a short primer on the metallurgy behind heat treating: austenite formation, the TTT curve, and martensite formation. Schedules, billets, and the blade log 📝 all stay on your device 📱.