[jimmontg]

Envious. Nice sized oven. Did you cryo them or just leave out overnight without a temper? Just wondering as my 440C instructions always said temper immediately. We used an old cooking stove with a precise thermometer laser reader to know exactly how hot the oven was when we pre-heated it. Or we just put the blades in dry ice if we had to do a hotter temper than the stove was capable of. Should say machine parts as we never did any cutting blades with 1000 degree tempers excep thick D2 where it was called out on the blueprint specs. What it was supposed to do beside stabilize the dimensional size I don't know as they had to go to the grinder dept after I straightened them.

I never did much 440C as we seldom had it, but I had an 1/8" bar at home I had bought and I made a few knives from it. Mostly made knives from O1 and D2 and some AEB-L drop offs.