ed good, if you are going to pass along opinion and instruction on heat treating steel, it would be helpful for you to become familiar with the terminology and definitions of the heat treating process.

I have a very hard time reconciling your opposition to re-case coloring and your vending of "torched" guns. There is no way you know the surface temperature of the center of a torch "spot." Hence, you have no idea what you may have done to that spot of metal.