Quote Originally Posted by Vasilis View Post
Theoretically, quenching in an alloy would be a smaller shock for the piece of steel; the liquid alloy will be a lot colder, but again, since it's an alloy, the heat transfer would be a lot faster, resulting in both a faster AND gentler quench for the whole piece.
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I would think that the most gentle quench would be as slow as you could go and still stay left of the nose and the formation of pearlite and bainite in the edge region. Faster than that does not result in higher hardness AFAIK. The depth of the hardness would be affected, but for razors this is not a concern IMO.