"As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible"
Nice grinding! What's your heat source to HT that big boy. Well done. RC
I send all my blades to a specialist heat treater in New Zealand who are the distributor and importer of Bohler Steel (which is what I use) They really do an outstanding heat treat.
This will be cryo'd to get the best out of the steel. I'm going to err on the side of caution and set the RC to 54.