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Old 05-13-2017, 11:22 PM
Doug Lester Doug Lester is offline
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All sorts of stresses going on in that quench with the edge contracting a lot faster than the spine. Even with a full edge first quench like they do with katanas have relatively high failure rate. I think if those old Japanese swordsmiths hand Parks #50 they would have definitely used it.

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