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Yep, Aldo's 52100 is a great, great steel, no doubt about it. The mill he receives it from does an excellent job annealing it, that's for sure! It is butter soft to work, and I bet guys using CNC really like the fact that it is so heavily spheroidized. I myself wish it wasn't so coarse spheroidized, but it's not a big deal to normalize and cycle it.
And about going crazy with cycling, I hear you. I hear all kinds of stuff about cycling on the forums. Claims that "you HAVE to do sub critical cycling to get the most out of it" and stuff like that.
I only do 3 cycles after normalizing, and never below 1425f.
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