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First chart shows tempering range and colors for temps.

Second shows effects of temp on hardness.
Notice temps in first for tempering.


Second is for drawing knives made of 1095 back from brittle hard
To the range of normal knives. Softened, but still hard.

No idea how nitriding affects a gun.
But there is some BS being thrown around here,

And Scota is not wrong in his talk of temps.

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