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Old 02-07-2018, 04:00 PM   #19
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Default Re: [Cutting-Edge Armor Design] Real World SCA-legal Armour and Ballistics Armour

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Originally Posted by Icelander View Post
I'll get to the rest of the post later, but I understand that abrasion resistant steels with a hardness around 500 are usually alloys of high-carbon steel, chromium-molybdenum, manganese and maybe a few other things. They are usually proprietory by manufacturer.
That probably won't much affect the ability to cut it, but heat treating it to get it back to its original hardness may not be practical at all, as part of what is proprietary is the way they do treatment.

On the other hand, this may not be needed. Just buy the large pieces in the desired shape (a commercial armor plate may do the job) and link custom parts on for the areas not normally covered.
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