How Knife Hardness Can Fool You! GOOD vs BAD Heat Treatments

Knife HRC hardness isn't always accurate on the surface. How hardness and heat treatment can fool when analyzing knives for review.
See this video for real world examples of bad heat treatments vs good heat treatments. → https://youtu.be/v8xK69vWITk

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CHAPTERS
00:00 How hardness may not be what it seems.
01:08 Soft on the outside but hard in the middle.
04:54 Another reason you may read soft but its actually hard
05:25 Hard on the outside but soft in the middle
06:08 WATCH THIS→GOOD vs BAD with the same hardness? Showing how bad heat treatments can also be HARD
07:10 You must consider everything!

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