A method of manufacturing a cutting member include cutting a first metal material to form a first portion of the cutting member; cutting second metal material to form a second portion of the cutting member, wherein a first edge of the second portion has at least two line segments, a curve formed by the at least two line segments being mathematically continuously differentiable; welding the first portion and the second portion together; raising the cutting member blank to a first temperature at a first rate and holding raising the cutting member blank from the first temperature to a second temperature at a second rate lower than the first rate and holding, and raising the cutting member blank from the second temperature to a third temperature at a third rate not higher than the second rate and holding.