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Old 03-23-2016, 10:24 AM
Doug Lester Doug Lester is offline
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You are correct. A knife blade, if properly quenched, comes out of the quenchant just about as brittle as glass. Let me add, however, that they have had instances where the contestant did not leave the blade in the quenchant long enough and allowed to cooling to slow too soon and produced a soft blade.

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