If you look at my illustration under the “profile“ part,… what generally happens with many of the stock reduction blades is that they tend to chip out easier and/or be more jagged along the edge as sharpened or etched along the point end where the grain flow has been cut across. This is especially noticeable when trying to do things like "splitting hairs" with a surgically honed blade.
If you look at the illustration under “cross section“, what happens is, if you have an inclusion along the edge, or the center line of where the edge will be, it’s negative effects can be minimized through forging, or essentially “squeezing” the steel down to the edge… rather than removing stock and leaving the inclusion thicker, more exposed, as rolled. Plus, there is the additional strength from just having the grain flow match the bevel angle... no telling what kind of odd stresses, strains and/or shocks the blade may or may not go through in actual usage.
If you look at my illustration under the “profile“ part,… what generally happens with many of the stock reduction blades is that they tend to chip out easier and/or be more jagged along the edge as sharpened or etched along the point end where the grain flow has been cut across. This is especially noticeable when trying to do things like "splitting hairs" with a surgically honed blade.
If you look at the illustration under “cross section“, what happens is, if you have an inclusion along the edge, or the center line of where the edge will be, it’s negative effects can be minimized through forging, or essentially “squeezing” the steel down to the edge… rather than removing stock and leaving the inclusion thicker, more exposed, as rolled. There is the additional strength from just having the grain flow match the bevel angle... no telling what kind of odd stresses, strains and/or shocks the blade may or may not go through in actual usage.