I just bought a 12" billet of Stainless Steel "clad" 52100 from Aldo and I received it yesterday. As I look at the sides of it it looks like the layers are perfectly straight with one another. If it is like that all the way through I will get a straight line when I grind in the bevel. Your knife has beautiful activity in the blade like what I want. In order to get that activity do I need to heat up this billet and beat on it a little in order to distort the surfaces of the different layers or if I grind it as is will that activity be there just from the cladding (forging) process? Thanks,
Wallace
The SS is 410 and I am hoping for some migration even if I didn't heat it and grind it myself. However, after your comments, I don't think I have any choice because the center section is almost perfectly straight. Do you have any suggestions on how I pound it? Should I try and put in a pattern or maybe place a bar perpendicular to the billet and pound on it - I suppose that would give me some kind of a wavy pattern. Any suggestions would be appreciated . Thanks
Wallace