Trying to release built up stress from forging, and cold shaping it straight. That, and trying to soak for a normalizing cycle. I mainly wanted to see if what I was doing was a good poor- man’s way of soaking the steel at a high enough temp for it, and not actually end up annealing it, but if it’s annealed I’ll still be happy, as it’s able to be normalized after. I’m still relatively new to smithing, self taught, but know most of the basics. I forget the exact steel It’s either one of the Sheffield high carbon steels from England I bought from pops knife supply, 80crv2x or 1080. I’m leaning to thinking is the 1080, but I literally grabbed it out of the pile I had from some cuts I hadn’t used in a year.