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A couple things I noticed (It's REALLY difficult to tell how well your grain structure is in photos).
Doug mentioned a few of these already...
If all you did was take it TO non magnetic...that was not hot enough. Non magnetic is ~1414?F, and 1080/1084 should be taken to 1500?F, and then with an even heat (soak a minute or two). The edge may be 1500 but the spine may not, in other words. 1080/1084 doesn't need a soak, but just make sure temp is equalized through the piece.
70? canola (assuming ?F here) is pretty cold for canola. Should be ~130?F. The 1080 steel needs a somewhat fast quench oil, and warming canola to the 130?F mark is what you're after.
The grain, to me, looks OK. Notice the grain right at the edge, and the top corner, where you have a nice, clean fracture. Looks like a solid gray, non textured surface. Excellent. The area that looks more "coarse" MAY (or may not...hard to tell online pics) be just the bent steel that did not fracture well, and always will give a coarser look than the grain actually is.
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