First Bowie WIP

Here are some pics from the heat treat of the "bowie" I'm working on. I put bowie in quotes because no one knows what Jim Bowie's knife looked like and anything that's large anymore is either called a bowie or a seax. I digress, on to the pics:
Prepping for heat treat-

  

 Normalize cycle number 3

 

Burning off the oil from HT 1 prepping for second heat treat. I've never done this before, but I've heard of it and decided to give it a try. Dramatic, yes?

 

Quick thanks to Jaime Forero for bringing over several filters this weekend- I shot these with the UV filter and I think they came out really good.