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"Deep freezing at extremely low temperatures." Sounds like cryo to me.

edit: I'm open to suggestions, but I really see no other explanation. Deep freezing at extremely low temperatures is...

Theres different alloys of carbon steel. I doubt its made from 10XX. The smiths agreed that they would never bother with cryo treating 10xx.

It could also be a martensitic SS, I believe they...

Are DAs ans Wapis made from stainless? I think most smiths agree that the greater the complexity of the steel, the greater the benefits. Therefore, SS would benefit from cryo treatment.

Did a search about the subject over at the sword place. The smiths are in agreement, cryo treatment does have advantages, but its almost worthless for carbon steel. The steels that will receive the...

I knew the info was somewhere....lazy people in the chat room who can't do searches.....

You know who you are.

It'd be pretty expensive. Henckels probably cryo treats their razors. They cryo their kitchen knives. Or was that another company....

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Sounds like it was cryo treated to me. :shrug: