I picked up a Dell 2007FPW at a garage sale in 2019 for $30 and felt kinda dumb for years because everyone said CRTs were the only way. My whole thing changed when I popped in Silent Hill 2 and saw how muddy it looked on my old Trinitron compared to the Dell. The fog was all smeared and the text was fuzzy, but on the LCD it was sharp and the reds actually looked red. I still keep a little CRT around for light gun games, but for everything else the flatscreen wins easy.

Wait, did that actually change your mind?

My buddy did the same thing last spring with a 1095 camp knife and canola. He had this thing looking like a boomerang after the quench, and the edge was so soft he could file it like mild steel. What saved him was a trick he read about: he clamped it between two thick steel plates with a shim in the middle of the curve and stuck the whole thing in his tempering oven at 400 for two cycles. Took it out, let it cool slow, and about 80 percent of the bend came out. The rest he fixed with a brass hammer and a few light taps on the spine while it was still warm. Worth a shot before you scrap it.