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I put the pipe horizontally in the charcoal, with charcoal heaped on top. One end of the pipe is hammered shut.
I wait until the pipe is glowing bright orange and then I put in the blade I want to...

I heat O2 in a steel pipe in my charcoal fire. No electronic equipment, just eyeball and experience. My quenching oil is a large canister of maize oil, and I temper in an electric oven.

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These days I always hammer out the blanks on my anvil, and then anneal them before I take them to the grinder. That way I have to remove a lot less metal. The blade section will be more or less...

Is there a particular reason for working with 1095? I've heard many people talk about warping / cracking 1095 during quench. And my own water quenching adventures have a number banana shaped objects...

Did you water quench or oil quench?

Note that if you want a nice and narrow bevel, you'll have to do some grinding post HT as well. And as Charlie said, don't go above 4:1 (or below 1:4 :)) because you'll just make your life more...