Tool steel
A2 Tool Steel
Manufacturer or standards-body identification; product values do not apply to every form or condition.
Identity / state reference
What distinguishes this material
Rigor is a documented A2/1.2363 product. Its soft-annealed delivery state is distinct from a finished hardened cold-work tool.
- Designation in this reference
- A2
- Forms covered by the sources
- Rigor bar, machined stock, hollow bar and ring programme.
- States to distinguish or confirm
- Supplier soft-annealed delivery; record subsequent hardening and tempering.
- Temperature and exposure
- No universal service-temperature limit or room-temperature property set is assigned. Use the cited product document and the purchase certificate.
Property evidence for a stated condition
No condition-specific numerical table is reproduced here
The linked sources establish the identity and the stated product/state scope. Obtain the row for your actual form, section, treatment and test conditions before adopting strength, hardness or a thermal limit.
Resolve these conditions next
- What product standard, edition and complete grade are on the material certificate?
- What product form, section size and delivery/heat-treatment condition will be machined?
For machining, take the exact grade, supplied condition and measured hardness where applicable into the tool maker’s application data. A generic material-family speed is not a substitute for an operation and tool-specific recommendation.
Sources and what they establish
Reviewed 23 October 2026. A source’s publication date and the review date are different. The scope below identifies the fields checked.
Uddeholm Rigor A2 datasheet
A2/1.2363 product identity, soft-annealed delivery and separate hardening guidance.
Uddeholm Rigor A2 datasheet ↗Source identity, a named product example and a supplied-batch certificate are different evidence. Cross-standard similarity does not approve substitution.
Corrections from the previous article
- Remove the unsupported generic annealed tensile number and the unqualified finished hardness.
- Withdraw the legacy generic hardness (210–240 HB (annealed)) and tensile-strength (1,860 MPa (270 ksi) hardened) pair: the old page does not establish a matching product, heat treatment, section and test source.
- Remove the unsupported cutting-speed table and machinability percentage; select tooling only after the actual material condition is known.
Related references
Compare other tool-steel families
Shock-resisting tool-steel records answer a different selection question from an air-hardening cold-work grade. Review the application and treatment basis.
Decode the tool-steel letter
Use the letter-family guide alongside the full grade and heat-treatment record.