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i have parks 50 also and it great stuff. i cover all my oil hardening stuff (slow oil steels i interrupt the quench) that and the Al plates for quench of air harding steels is mostly uneventful
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what do you use for quench and what temp did you quench from. thats the big 2 trouble shooing not gettign hard

now that said do you know for sure what the Damascus has in it (some have been known...

i was planning on going to 52100 but found a good source of W2 (40lb) for now that will be my razor stock

now this said i have a computer controlled kiln and LN dewer and parks 50 for my heat...

i plan on a gass set up too when i can get the space in the shop for it
but any how lots of different ways to mess the steel up a bit

so get known steel learn all you can about it and take your...

and if you don't know what your doing at the forge you can reallyl hurt the steel
try that on a grinder (white hot and sparking :) )
right now i know im more prone to mess ups at the forge then i...

from what i recall you would want to use nothing 1060 or less
but anything bigger 10XX wise should be fine

the key here being know your heat treat info ok steel with great heat treat is still...