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Clay-Coat Quenching: The Art of Forging Hardness and Resilience Together

Clay-coat heatment

“Clay-coat quenching” is a distinctive blade-making technique in which a carefully prepared clay mixture is applied to the blade before heating it to a specific temperature, causing different parts of the blade to develop different hardness levels as they cool. When the red-hot blade is plunged into water, the exposed areas cool rapidly, while the […]