Dimensions: 9-5/8 x 1-5/8 x 0.223” Basket Twist Pattern
Alloys: CruForgeV and 15n20
Condition: Normalized, annealed, and surface ground
Pattern Weld Billet #10
From as received, if just stock-removed to get a blade, do all your profiling, drilling and rough grinding etc, then heat up oven to 1490. Normalize once from 1490, then put right back in and heat to 1490 with a 10 minute soak at temp. Quench into parks 50 or AAA or something medium-fast. Temper twice for two hours, try 350 for Rc 62 but if you want to hit a specific Rc hardness my advice is to start low and creep up on it as equipment varies.
As a twist pattern, Basket Twist looks fairly plain and tightly twisted on the surface. For best pattern reveal, grind as deeply in as possible as the pattern opens into a woven look more the closer you get to the core.
The edge of a blade beveled from this will display the pattern best. A hollow grind or thin kitchen knife works great.
