[TheForge] Oregon fusion blades

[PlumDon at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/9/2009 2:13:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
crosspein at sbcglobal.net writes:
Hi guys,
I think shot-peening could  probably qualify as well; Not that I have any 
idea of what they are actually  doing.

And I'm confident my meager exposure to such processes means there  are 
probably a dozen more common processes that I either can't recall at the  
moment, or have simple never been exposed to.

This could also just be  a simple as "marketing" and not really be 
anything we'd consider  significant.

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Yeah,  but that edge of the blade REALLY does seem harder to me....and they 
are holding  up better.

I'm curious as to how they might confine the process to just  that small 
4-5" section of the blade.
I wonder, also,  if it might have some relativity to knife  making.