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Over heated blades will have larger grain. I'm not metallurgist enough to explain the details but the bottom line is if you get the heat right (within a very narrow range) and then do the correct quench you end up with a grain structure that lets the blade perform to its potential. Anything outside that range may still seem to work OK but it will not be 'the best'. Well outside that range and you get a blade that will fail ...
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