BLAZE Magazine Winter 2013 | Page 36

“When you are working with 440 Surgical Stainless Steel, It goes in the oven and hardens,” said Tapley. “When they come out of the foil, you can see right through them.” By this point in the process, the bolsters have already been added, to separate the blade from the handle. “I’ll take the knives out and then put them in my wife’s oven for two hours at 500 degrees,” said Taple