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Old 08-21-2016, 03:17 PM
Doug Lester Doug Lester is offline
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Heating the tang with a torch will work as long as you don't go past the critical temperature which is going to be over 400? less than the 1875? you run your oven at. If you heat the tang enough that the steel goes through a phase change it will harden when it cools in the air.

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