I seriously doubt if you could get a good temper in a kitchen oven Al. I generally heat the tang with a torch & watch the colours run. You could also try laying it in a shallow tray of tallow and burning the tallow off > If there are, I need some advice. Someone posted on a > list sometime in the past about "Drawing the temper" > of a knife blade after hardening it by baking it in > his wife's Kitchen oven. Problem is, I forgot to make > a note of the temperature or the length of time which > it was baked. Can any of you help out? > > Al Messer > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. > > To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, > modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line. > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.