LeFusil, I can assure you that I am no one but myself. I do not know Ed Good nor anyone else on this forum.

As for recoloring parts, whichever method is used, the coloration is but a single part of the process. Anyone that knows anything about heating and hardening steels, knows that they must be tempered post hardening or else you do indeed end up with a very hard yet very brittle part.

Dave Myrick