No effect on the steel. It takes more skill to convert a blade to convex than it does to maintain an existing convexed blade though. Be prepared to put in the time on the conversion process if you want the same performance attributes as your bravo.
Mind you it can be done, but you will have to thin out that edge more than just knocking the bevels off to do so. Also note that the barky is a full convex grind, from spine to edge. The RC-6 is flat and you can put a convex edge on it. To do the conversion, you are removing metal from an already aggressively tapered flat grind. To get the same edge angle on the RC-6 as the Bravo-1, you will have much less metal behind the edge and it will not have the same strength as the bravo-1. Thus, I'd advise you not to thin out your RC-6 too much. It is afterall a mid-size blade and you want to keep that edge robust enough for general utility.
Personally, I'm happy knocking of the bevels and polishing the edge by stropping in the normal way you maintain your convex knives. This keeps a robust and sharp enough edge that I believe offers many of the slicing performance attributes that convex has to offer. In fact, I think a flat grind + convex edge offers better slicing than full convex.
