Its only around $3 more per foot than other cpm stainless steels like CPM154 and the same price as S35VN. CPM 20CV and S90V are both more expensive. Nitro V and AEBL are like half the price for a 4' bar vs the 3' bars of the CPM stuff. I got 10 smaller blades (around 7" ish ) out of my 6' of steel, so with shipping, it is around $15/blade of magnacut.
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- Thread starter Justin Presson
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Used my oven for stainless finally! 10 Magnacut blades and 2 AEB-L blades heat treated and cryo'd at home!! Process went well using the foil packets and then the nitrogen. Tempering took a while because I was creeping down on the HRC numbers (Magnacut was 63-65 after the first 300 degree temper, then up to 65-66 after the 2nd temper, AEB-L went to 66-68!) to get them to 64 for the Magnacut and 63 for the AEB-L. Minor warping, but the carbide hammer took care of that pretty quickly. My LN Dewar has "specimen holders" that will fit a blade just shy of 1.5" wide into, so I loaded up 5 blades in each holder for the cryo process, so I didn't clamp them, just put them in...slowly. LN boils fast if you put them in too fast!
Reverse tanto is AEB-L and the other FBBO is Magnacut
Reverse tanto is AEB-L and the other FBBO is Magnacut
