Just started this razor after getting a forge up and running. Going off of memory and what I’ve found on the internet as far as thermo-cycles and heat treat go. I banged out an rso on a railroad track section for an anvil. Looking to end up with one of these:

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I normalized are what looked like bright cherry, then cycled down from there until I hit an even dull red, maybe 4-5 cycles. I also turned down the forge progressively. On the last heat I shut the forge off and let the razor go to black on the anvil then stuck the steel back in and capped the ends of the forge to let it all cool slowly and hopefully anneal the steel for grinding and filing.

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Hoping for any input or suggestions on how to end up with a decent heat treat and fine grain structure. I do have another gas forge I made for heat treating. It has a muffler and a thermocoupler for monitoring the temp. I do plan after rough grinding to go through a proper normalizing and grain refining session. I definitely would like to learn my colors. For tempering I started on a pid controlled deep fryer that I still need to get some low temp salts for. Plannng on 2-3 tempering cycles at 400f.

Again, this is my plan based on a dangerously small amount of experience and reading. An and all help would be appreciated.