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Yeh I would agree the grain is course, also IF its not tempered it should snap fairly quick it shouldn't do much bending. AFTER you get the grain right and it snaps clean then go and make a blade temper test and break, once its tempered it should bend like that not before.....still a lil to soft.........just a tip, so you don't waste a ton of steel. Make coupons first basicly a rectangle piece of steel, on each long side of the coupon you put a V notch about a 1/4in deep.....heat treat this coupon just as you would a knife when you break it align those V nothes with the top of the vise jaws. The notch just gives it a weak point to break. this way with the same amount of steel that you could make 3 or 4 coupons (of corse depending how big your knives are) that way you don't waste a bunch of steel. ONCE you get the grain good and fine.....and have it snap without bending (if it UN tempered) then you repeate that heat treat on a new test knife....trust me it saves a lot of steel
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