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Stress relief/normalization/etc.

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Bo T

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How do you all treat your blades after forging?
Do you do a simple anneal then clean up the blade (cold working) and then do your normalization just before quenching?
Or do you normalize, clean up your blade (cold work), and do a simple stress relief before quenching?
Or???
Thanks.
 
I do a simple sub-critical annealing (spheroidize) when I am done with the days work. I normalize (cycle down at 1650,1500,1350,1250) the blade before the final quench.
 
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