Interesting discussion on heat treating and cryo treating. I would suspect the guy is sending these out to a lab and doesn't have tight quality control. He could be dunking the knives and that wouldn't give the steel structure enough time to re-align since it doesn't happen as fast as heat treating when comparing to T-T-T diagrams.
Lead time is 4-5 weeks so he may subcontract a lot of this work too.
In the end, I got my three hunting knives out including a Kabar and a mora knife and determined this profile is not what I want. It is too deep and I want a slimmer profile for "coring" my whitetails. The guy does offer custom profiles, however my problem is I like to touch & feel products first.
How do other custom knife makers handle the situation where people want to "touch" products first?
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