Making a knife (HT question)

[h3n4]

As I can't post in the Knife maker's forum, I'll just ask here. Sorry if this has been answered before.

I'm intending on making a camillus BK7-ish (in other words a large knife for bushcraft) knife from high carbon steel flat stock, that, as far as I know is meant for forging, according to the retailer.
The composition is as follows:
C: 0,83 %, Mn 0,57, Cr 0,60, V 0,20.

And the heat treatment suggested is as follows:
Hardening temperature: 840 - 880ºC.
Temper: 60 HRC 200ºC, 57 HRC 250ºC, 55 HRC 300ºC.

Now the real question is, can I make a good, high performance knife from this material by stock removal method? Do you have suggestions on a proper heat treatment to achieve a hardness of around 58-59 RC?
This is my very first attempt at heat treating steel and I don't have the equipment (there are some ovens at my former school), but would my own cooking oven do the tempering? So please, a pretty thorough guide on how to pull this off.

 

[Cougar Allen]

As I can't post in the Knife maker's forum

Huh? I think you must have been trying to post in the wrong Knifemakers' forum -- this belongs in Shop Talk.

 

[mete]

There is no reason why this wouldn't make a good knife steel .There is no exact American steel but it's like our 61xx with .80 C.Once you get it hardened and an initial temper you can temper further in your kitchen oven. For the 58-59 HRc just temper a 225 C.