Goneshoot'n
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Recently I found a knife that I had started making but never finished from a few years ago. It's ready for heat treat and a handle. I'd like to finish it, but I am stuck on the heat treat method. Problem is I live in an apartment. I don't have a place outside to run a forge, and I don't have the space to store one after I'm done with the project. I know I could make a really small one, but my reloading bench takes up all my available space. I mean ALL of it... It's a mess. I'm leaning towards the torch, but it's not ideal. I think it will work for the 1095 I'm using. . If I light up a big pile of briquettes in the bbq pit and stick the knife in the middle, (I have no way of getting air to it,) will that get it hot enough in a short enough time for a heat treat? Or will it take too long to heat, resulting in too much grain growth?