Nope, I don't think that blade was hurt at all - just clean it up, should be pretty easy and not really removing any metal to speak of. With a tiny leak in foil, that same thing has happened to many of us.
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Nope, I don't think that blade was hurt at all - just clean it up, should be pretty easy and not really removing any metal to speak of. With a tiny leak in foil, that same thing has happened to many of us.
I was heat treating these folder blades in the same packet and one is looking a lot different than the other. They were tip to tip in the packet, spine down. I held the foil up to the light and couldn't see any pin holes. If it was from air, maybe the fold on the foil? I double fold every seam.
This image/blade?
That looks to be steel burnt 1/2 way thru.
It may be my monitor but the steel looks like wool to me.
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It's not your monitor, it's that you've never seen air hardened steel before it's been cleaned up. It has a matte, almost bead blasted look to it.
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"experience can not be replaced with speculation" Something to keep in mind when discussing knife related things with established knife makers.
I opened the image in "MS Paint" I can now see the blade is marred on the surface only.
For this entire thread I was believing the blade had ignited, and burned thru.
That does indeed make my posts look foolish.