Commonly annealing is as you said, but any form of softening steel is an annealment. I ain't a linguist, but hardening in a quench is merely the conversion of austinite to martinsite into a crystalline form trapping the carbon before it can escape. The plan was to give as simple instructions as I could so someone could heat treat their knife flawlessly. There's a million pages we could write on our take but in simplicity, I was just saying enough to give the basics of what's going on to get them to experiment, compare and learn. A large part of steel technology is really opinion I've been making Damascus knives for forty years, and no not pattern welded, I'm talking about folded steel with 100,000 layers and carbon nanotubes running full length of the blade.( duplicating nguro masamuni ) ask Wayne Goddard,John boy rickter. I didnt just set down yesterday with a file and make a shank.
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