[jimmontg]

WBE, you get O1 1/16 in bar stock? I never used less than 3/32 and it was sheared and you HT the way you described? Amazing stuff O1, like Ray said it's one of the best steels around. Guess it is why it is my favorite steel, oven or forge. I do not say so usually on the open forum, but I tell newbies to forge HT O1 before 1084.lol It has flexibility too and does well in a forge. To say 1084 is better may be so, but O1 does pretty good too. Please note HT O1, not forge it.

WBE I never had anyone tell me that I could form O1 and get rid of the warp after quench. I presume as you said it has so much time to be shaped. I could tell you some stories about HT cuprous and aluminum metals that last 2 to 3 hours before it goes back to hard. Beryllium copper makes outstanding springs and even firing pins. I used to make springs from it.