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I realize that normalizing helps to relieve internal stresses caused by shaping the steel during forging. Besides making the steel softer so that I can grind and shape it prior to quenching, is there something else that annealing accomplishes that is important as far as future performance of the blade is concerned? Does the steel have to be put back into a ferrite/cementite structure through annealing in order for the quenching process to be able to fully transform austinite to martensite? Are there other benefits?
Rick
Rick