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It can be compressive or tensile stress, doesn't matter. So yes, hammer forging counts. (what are CZ's btw?)

I was also talking about loading stock with tensile force prior to stock removal...

I can't quite gather what is going on there, but I'm really tired right now, so...

Hammering accomplishes compressive stress, I was thinking of taking say, 1" by 7" by whatever thickness stock and "stretching" it gradually. Like in tensile testing. Here's a graph- the...

So I know steel can be work hardened by stressing it to yield stress slowly, then unloading it slowly. Would this have any benefit on razors do you think? I feel like it would allow a small increase...