Help with annealing hypoeutectoid steels (5160, 1075 etc) in gas forge and others

Ok,

Here's how I drill holes in a blade that is ready for scales..

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My knifemaking process is rather organic. Never drawn a picture of a knife I wanted to build, just went to the forge with a piece of steel and let the hammer do the drawing, pun not intended. That way, if it sucked I actually had the experience of making a knife that sucked and I could gain from the forging experience to put into the next knife. On that note, I feel austenitizing temps are moot; sure you can have a general temp for a particular steel but every batch of steel is a little different so decalescence is the true indicator of austenitizing temperature, IMO. Carpet bagging is one thing that can get you through some situations but in knife making, actually doing it and finding out for yourself what works is a 'whole 'nother' story.

It's been a while since I researched on HT but from what I recall, annealing after normalizing (steps in your OP) would completely moot the normalizing procedure so there would be no point in doing the normalizing in that sequence.

Actually I lied, I did draw a picture of a kukuri I wanted to make and it was a complete disaster... so, no more pictures.
 
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