Processing the steel:
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After all the forging is completed, the profile is finalized on a grinder, and the blade has the scale cleaned off, filing the primary bevel:
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Heating the blade for the first quench:
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This is my favorite picture from the whole photo shoot: :)
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The first quench into veggie oil: Note that the camera isn't necessarily showing the color in the steel accurately.
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Checking with a file to ensure that the blade hardened properly (it did):
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Time to do it again: This happens three times unless there is a warp that requires re-heating to fix.
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Many warps (and long blades are more prone to that than short blades) can be fixed without reheating if you work quickly and carefully. There is a short time window after the quench before the steel crystals fully set up, and during that time the blade can be flexed back straight. Here I am doing that using my post vise and my vertical quench tank to flex against:
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Who is that handsome devil with the stylishly long sideburns? :D
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