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Mike, in your experience, what is the safest way to draw out a finished billet, especially where it concernes upsetting? Orange heat or closer to welding heat?

On one hand, welding heat would seem...

I used borax. It did a good job. :)
The benefit of borax is that you can re-apply when the steel is hot. I presume that for kerosene it has to be cold?

Today I drew it out further. I noticed that drawing it out at welding heat, one side peeled loose a bit while I was upsetting it. I fluxed it, and welded it back shut. Then I went to orange heat and...

The weather was nice and I had some time, so I decided to finally forge my first multi layer billet. I made a stack of 4" long pieces of steel, placed on top of a long bar of steel for support. The...