I thought these two went together well. This was my first venture into stainless steel with the blade being AEB L. Quite a difference in the heat treating as the temperature in the heat treat is 1975 degrees! It is not oil quenched but is air quenched between aluminum plates. It then requires cyro treatment to get it to a minus zero rating and then tempering cycles at 400 degrees. I continue to learn more and more about metalurgy which to me is very complicated. But luckily there are folks out there that can make it less complex when explaining it
OAL is 7-7/8" with a 3-7/8" blade. The damascus billet I used is from Vegas Forge. The bolster and spacer is wrought iron from a piece of farm equipment I found in a barn on my wife's property. It has a G10 spacer.
