Neat project, the blade looks pretty sexy! Do you have any particular reason for normalizing, especially 3 times, since this is a stock removal knife? I don't believe the amount of grinding you did on the blade, especially pre-HT, warrants normalizing for any sort of reason. That's assuming your starting steel comes properly annealed out of the factory, which appears to be the case when looking at where it came from.
@@forgedbywill you know I have no idea. I never even thought that it was factory annealed. I’ll have to check. That would make sense. I just do it cause that’s what the internet says😂😂
@@ironriverarmory584 normalizing didn't hurt the blade at all but yeah, it's usually done to relieve stress accumulated during the forging process. Most steels come fully annealed from the factory because they have to be easy to work with. Not everyone has a forge and it would be a wasteful process if it had to be the case. The only key difference between the steels is mainly how it was rolled: cold or hot. Hot rolling allows the factory to output thicker pieces, but what you buy comes annealed regardless. The Alpha Knife Supply website indicates HRPA and CRA on the 80CRV2 page. The A stands for annealed it seems. I'm only just learning about those sort of things myself, I'm a newbie knifemaker!
