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Shhhhew…, thats quite the process. Thank you for the information. lI’ll try anything to get the best result possible. I’ve been saying it for a while but it seems like I need to invest in an oven. Those timely processes seem like I’d go through a lot of gas. I buy all my steel through AKS. I...

Thank you. All good to know information. I will definitely try this technique.

I will definitely do that thanks. Knowledge is power!!

Yes, sorry, I left that part out.

I normalized to 1500ish. After it cools, put back into gas forge then up to what I thought to be 1500-1600, then quench in canola. I have no way to check temp so I was going off color of metal. May have overshot both normalize and austenitize. Didn’t make it to temper step. A 55 HRC test file...

New to knife making and may have over shot the desired temp by 300°-400° on the first go round. Was trying to do it off the steels coloring. Can barely get it to 55 HRC (file) after 3 heat treat attempts. 80CrV2 quenched with canola. Do I need to spring for Parks 50? What am I doing wrong?