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Old 01-24-2017, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by jimmontg View Post
Chris, it is a beautiful knife and O1 is my favorite non-stainless alloy steel. Try super blue on one. Apply with 0000 steel wool and rub hard. Polish off the first layer with 0000 wool and reapply and repolish. It comes out nice. I did a mirror polish once and blued it and it was so reflective you couldn't tell what color it was outside in the sun and blue sky and trees. Needs a proper heat treat though. Do you use an oven or forge?
I'll check that out. It was hardened and tempered in an oven. I built the oven. I did 4 other knives with it. this one and another one were pretty thick blades. I posted one of the others. it was a personal knife. but i was able to bend that one over 45 degrees and it straighten back. I may bend it to see how far it goes before it breaks or takes a bend. anyways all i have for hardens testing is a set of test files the 60 barely scratched it so figuring 58-59rc
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