I was forging at bright orange, stopping at dull red, and not likely getting up into the yellows, but I am still pretty new to forging and had new green lenses on.

I left the work in my forge and closed the doors and let it cool as slowly as possible, but I'm not sure if it normalized properly.

For heat treat, I heated to orange and then quenched in warmed canola oil.

For tempering I used the kitchen oven set at 400*F for two hours and likely overshot a bit again. My best results have come from heat treating on a hard fire brick in that oven; I'll have to go back to that, I think.

The banding looks cool but doesn't help much!