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20 October 2023 at 1:53 pm
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Hi Antonio,
I saw your comment and asked Paul. He replied:
Yes, I am afraid this can happen, depending on whether the cutting iron was tempered sufficiently well. In this case it obviously wasn’t. Unfortunately, the only way to find out is hitting it with a hammer.