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I thought somebody talked about waiting until the shadows had gone from the piece before quenching (but still above magnetic). Maybe I read that wrong.

One other thing... I don't think I paid attention to recalesence and just quenched from orange hot.

Awesome. I had not tried this because my Grizzly is wicked fast and likely to burn/blue the thin metal, and my variable frankengrinder doesn't have a flat platen. Maybe I'll remedy this. That's...

Forgot about the atmosphere. I can make my forge billow yellow flames but even at its leanest, I always have flame coming out, which heats the forge body, so I don't overdo the fuel-rich mix for any...

And thanks for the feedback and resources!

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...

Once again, Charlie, thanks for your advice.

Does this mean that you take the side of the blade (like the wedge surface) to the belt grinder to set the bevel, and then grind out the hollow? That...

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Or a mix of the two!

I think the angle is a bit steep (ended up a bit thinner than planned), and my oven overshot the temp again and went to brown/purplish.

Sounds reasonable. This is a homemade razor. Takes a serious grunt to grind down tool steel to a cutting edge.

Hi all,

Just wondering if you guys tend to find the first edge you put on a razor difficult to achieve?

I have a neat forged kamisori project in O1 (which turned out to be ground left-handed)...