I did a couple 26c3 knives recently. I still polishing the little one. The larger one was cycle three times at 1425f, coated LIGHTLY, and heat treated at 1425f into brine. It survived the quench, but even though though the edge was 0.040”, it developed the worst bacon edge I have had in my shop since heat treating with a weed burner and used motor oil. I could see incredible activity at even 60grit on the grinder. Unfortunately I cracked the worst part of the bacon edge on the 6th temper over clamping it.
I’ll talk to
@Larrin about some tests we can do to improve activity. I think the steel is ready for easy heat treat from the mill, but we can get more activity relatively easily with some grain refinement. I suspect brine will be overkill. I’ll be doing more experiments this week.