Quote Originally Posted by JDM61 View Post
Looking good!!!! A number of years ago, one of the guys who was making san mai blades from a carbon steel core and 416 cladding told me that he would put clay just on the spine when quenching, not for some kind of high rise hamon, but to prevent that potential delamination.
In this case that wouldn't work, because the contrast layers wouldn't harden either.