5160 Hamon?

[TekSec]

Pretty sweet activity for not expecting anything!

 

[wordsmith]

Can you do the "reheat the edge with a torch before quenching" trick with 1080/w2 and get similar results, or are clay or edge quenching the only ways to get a hamon on those steels?

 

[Raymond Richard]

Can you do the "reheat the edge with a torch before quenching" trick with 1080/w2 and get similar results, or are clay or edge quenching the only ways to get a hamon on those steels?

Both those steel will work using this trick.