Sorry, been sporadic on the forums, so just saw people posting here.

If they cut it with laser, they upgraded me for free, twice. I was told laser would be much more expensive.

Mill scale is pretty biologically inactive, and the seasoning keeps the food away in any case. I’ll play with removing it sometime, but so far haven’t found reason to care.

People have been enjoying their steels for a couple years now. Guess I’ll get another batch going.