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Kelly doesn't have a website, he has a phone number: 509-949-5231
O1 is a great blade steel, probably my overall favorite. Yes, it got hard and will probably make a very serviceable blade. O1 is so good that almost anything you do to it for heat treatment will make some kind of blade. What I am saying is that it has the capacity to be much better than anything you're likely to get it to be using a forge. Great now perhaps, but even better when you have the ability to control the temperatures better (electric furnace or salt pots). But, as you pointed out, it is pretty expensive for an (almost) simple carbon steel. So, that's why I suggest the results you get with O1 in your forge to the results you get with 1084 (if you had any). Might be better but maybe not enough better to justify the extra expense. I think you told me in the Chat Room that someone gave you the O1 and that's great but that probably won't happen every time you need steel ....
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