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The three qualities that most impact the choice of a steel for a hand-tool application are edge-holding, sharpenability, and corrosion-resistance. For metallurgical reasons, you'll be able as it was have two of the three. They at Hock Tools feel that in carpentry, corrosion-resistance is the slightest vital of the three, and favor an edge that's effortlessly honed and long enduring. Steel's carbon substance decides its capacity to solidify with warm treatment. That hardness decides a tool's capacity to hold a sharp cutting edge beneath grating weight (wear). By and large, the harder the metal the way better its edge holding, but it'll be more brittle. Hock Tools edges are solidified to Rc62 for long edge life. Usually harder than most accessible substitution edges however not as difficult or delicate as most Japanese edges.