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Yeah, Niolox would do fine for that application.

My wife doesn't mind rinsing and drying the knife after use. So we've got laminated Blue Paper Steel at RC63 in our kitchen :-)

True, it took me a while to understand some metallurgy basics (I still understand only very little) before I finally understood why you see so few stainless razors and so many in simple carbon steel....

So the multiple annealing cycles I'm planning on doing should be just what the doctor ordered then.

That's good to hear. I've got a bowie sized laminated billet (core steel 52100 and outer layers out of Harley Davidson Damascus) sitting in my closet that I've been affraid to touch for about 2 years...

I recently bought some 52100. How're you liking that? Everything I read about it suggests a somewhat complex heat treat to get the best performance out of it (Although people also talk about O1...