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BrianPowley
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..and if it needs heat treated, take it to a real knife maker. Not a wannabe.
..and if it needs heat treated, take it to a real knife maker. Not a wannabe.
Personally, I don't engrave blade steel even before heat treating. Every time I've done it I've regretted it as it's really tough stuff. I hope your experience will be more pleasant than mine were. 
Personally, I don't engrave blade steel even before heat treating. Every time I've done it I've regretted it as it's really tough stuff. I hope your experience will be more pleasant than mine were.
Thank you very much.
Very best regard.
Jörmungandr
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Hello..
The steels that knifemakers around here use are usually hardenend, annealed and sometimes cryo-treated to somewhere between ~57 and ~63 HRC.
Thus, engraving AFTER heat treatment, would be disasterous. And horrible.
But before, alot of steels I would guess are quite nice to engrave. Engraved a knife this summer that had parts in 15n20, a carbon steel often used in mosaic and pattern welded blades. Not bad at all to engrave, but seemed to have some tough parts that chipped my tip now and then.
//DQ
The steels that knifemakers around here use are usually hardenend, annealed and sometimes cryo-treated to somewhere between ~57 and ~63 HRC.
Thus, engraving AFTER heat treatment, would be disasterous. And horrible.
But before, alot of steels I would guess are quite nice to engrave. Engraved a knife this summer that had parts in 15n20, a carbon steel often used in mosaic and pattern welded blades. Not bad at all to engrave, but seemed to have some tough parts that chipped my tip now and then.
//DQ
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