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I understand better where you are coming from, I apologize for anything uncomfortable I may have said.

Back to the pearlite...
Pearlite is a layered structure of ferrite and cementite. Cementite...

Do you want to know what geometric stricture turns into what? thats as more specific as it gets.

The added energy allows the molecules of the steel to start moving by breaking the bonds of the steel. Normalizing is a shorter lower energy process (energy is only added for the 10 minutes or so it...

When a metal is worked the grain structure is distorted, gaps form in the lattice, these stresses are what can cause a steel to break of develop fractures when quenching. Normalizing is letting a...

Thats because O1 needs some interesting annealing cycles after its been worked above critical to reduce the grin size and carbide structures to soften it.

I'm not saying to trash all the O1 I...

No you can not cold forge a blade. The stress will shatter it when heat treating starts. I find O1 to forge terribly, I stick with simple high carbon steels W1 is a good one and comes in many shapes,...