Is Hamon enough for spine temper?

[weldboss]

I am working on Camp knife for Chopping and Wild Animal defence.I think it would look great with a nice Hamon.
I have never done one on a larger blade that will be used for chopping.
Do I need to flame temper the spine after I do an oven temper? Or do I oven temper the whole blade and leave it at that?
I will post pic's when finished.

 

[C.Edmondson]

oven temper the whole blade, what are you working with, what kind of metal?

 

[weldboss]

Forged 1080 1/4" thk. at the spine 1 1/2" Wide 7" long with a moran bevel.

 

[Jim malone]

Harmon? Do you mean a Hamon?

 

[weldboss]

|Yes, I ment Hamon. I don't know what went wrong there Fixed.

 

[Justin King]

If you are only hardening the edge of the blade then you should not need to draw the spine afterwards, since it was never hardened in the first place. Spine drawing is mostly beneficial for through-hardened blades.