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**Bill Harsey** · 05-01-2006, 21:47

How a tool steel is made and heat treated determines the size of the individual carbides.

Anyone care to guess how this impacts knife blades for good or bad?

Not a test, just a conversation.

05-01-2006, 21:47	#18
Bill Harsey Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Oregon, Land of the Silver Grey Sunsets Posts: 3,879	How a tool steel is made and heat treated determines the size of the individual carbides. Anyone care to guess how this impacts knife blades for good or bad? Not a test, just a conversation. Last edited by Bill Harsey; 05-01-2006 at 21:49.
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