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    Hi Gents!

    I'm in big trouble.

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    I made the following process:

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    soaking: ~805C/1480F, 15 min.
    quenching oil: 50C, 30-40 sec.
    tempering: after cool enough to touch, 205C/400F, 2x1h (between cooling to room temperature)

    It seemed all right but I can't sharpen the blade. The edge is very sensitive (see the pic). What did I do wrong?

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    Thank you in advance for your help!
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    If Bruno doesn't see this maybe you should PM him
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    Mike Blue should be able to help too. Between the two of them, I'm sure they'll get it figured out.

    Unfortunately I'm much more of a practitioner of the eyeball and magnets approach to hardening, so I won't be much use at all to you. However, what you describe does seem to me to be pretty much by the book.
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    It all sounds right to me, the only thing that comes to my mind, is how thick was the edge prior to heat treat.

    I started off having trouble/inconsistent edges with heat treating O1. I was not leaving a thick enough edge for the long soak of an O1 heat treat. After I started leaving more meat/steel on my O1 blades my troubles went away.

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    Thank you guys for the very quick answers!

    Charlie,

    I forgot to describe this: the edge thick was 0.03145 in (0.8mm). One more thing, I may have been overheated during polishing but I cooled down all the time?

    It may not be heat-treated again, just a few tenths removed from the bottom?
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    .8 is about the limit of what I would do in your setup. There are 2 main issues: your blade is exposed in the fire, so the surface will be affected and may end up with less carbon. Secondly and more importantly: the edge behaves like a cooling fin. The time you need to take it out and get to the quench tank may air cool it below critical temperature. Leave a bit more thickness to the edge to overcome this problem. Another thing: after HT, you need to remove just a little bit of material from the edge itself because the surface area of the edge itself will have lost carbon.

    If you have overheated > 200 C after HT, then your blade is done for. Nothing will recover from that except doing HT all over. Did the blade discolor during polishing? If you saw colors on the steel, you did. If not, then you didn't.

    Now in terms of recovering: take 1 mm from the edge and see if the resulting edge passes the spark test. If it does, re-grind your razor and hone again. If it doesn't, then do the heat treatment again.

    Also a soak of 15 minutes might be a bit long for something so thin. I usually do just 5 minutes or so (counting from the time the edge section gets the correct temperature)
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