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Unpopular take: I stopped normalizing my steel before heat treat
Everyone says you gotta normalize 3 times for good grain structure, but idk, I tried skipping it on a batch of 1084 knives last month and they came out just as tough. Has anyone else tried this or am I just lucky so far?
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oliver71927d ago
Right there with you man, I've skipped normalize steps before too.
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sarahpatel27d ago
My buddy Jake tried the same thing on a batch of 1075 blades last year and three of them snapped during a chopping test. He'd skipped the normalizing to save time and ended up with a bunch of scrap steel. You might have gotten lucky with that 1084 batch, but I wouldn't count on it every time... grain structure is one of those things you don't notice until it fails and then it's too late. I'd rather spend the extra hour in the forge than risk a blade breaking on someone using it.
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