> So, I guess I'm just outta luck with my bucket of tools I've annealed 
> and rehardened over the years by grace of my woodstove.............?
>
> I chuck em straight into the coals when headed for bed and it'll heat 
> then die down on it's own all night long.
>
>   Then, next morning fire up the blaze (nobody needs to tell you this 
> when there's snow on the ground and your butt is freezing off)  and 
> when the fire gets crankin, put your tool in the new coals near the 
> air opening until it hits good n bright cherry all over and quick 
> plunge into either warm oil or --near boiling-- water. Salt optional. 
> That water has to be real not now!!  Cold water is not an option, 
> don't do it!!!!!
>    Straight down into the liquid and fast on the trigger too,  no 
> messing around, get it all the way in there!

> Trying to get a warp you introduced hardening back out of a blade, is 
> no fun at all!!

 Lost a few good blades that way.

>  
>  To temper, bake you a cake at 350 for 45 minutes with the tool on the 
> rack nearby and call it a day. Morning biscuits, won't quite do you, 
> so wait for dinner and the cake.  :-)
>    
> Ain't nobody sweatin n frettin round here. 
>     yours Scott
>   

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