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Forging any stainless steel such as CPMS30V or any other air quenching steel is something only for very experienced knife makers. The working temperature range for those steels tend to be narrow to very narrow and working outside of that range produces broken blades. They also need a high temperature oven for heat treating. Something like 1080, 1084, 80CrV2, or 5160 is going to be a lot more forgiving in both forging and heat treating.
I've never read Heinz Denig's book. I like The Master Bladesmith by Jim Hrisoulas.
Doug
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