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Comment by Alexander Noot on October 21, 2013 at 3:15

I annealed by getting it into my forge up to a red (orange) glowing heat. Then I leave it to cool down in the forge.

Heat treatment I did the same way I do any carbon steel blade. (Apart from 52100).

Orange heat, quench in vegetable oil,

2x a 1 hour temper in the oven at around 210 degrees celcius. For bigger blades I do 3 temper cycles.

I have to say though that I think it wasn't completely annealed because I ruined a drill bit getting the lanyard hole done. I'm going to invest in some vermicullite (spelling?) to get it to cool down more slowly in the future.

In Memoriam Comment by D ale on October 19, 2013 at 14:42

Alex .. how did you anneal & re-temper .. @ what temp for how long .. air dry / salt quench ???

I have 2 ANZA knives that I'm very pleased with & would like to try something like this myself.