After taking a few experimental stabs at forging a couple weekends ago, I intend to spend this one taking things a bit slower and crafting a knife via stock removal, i.e., grinding metal stock down. A pity I kept melting everything in half the last time around. And I had one just a reheat or two away from the grinder! Charcoal gets to inferno temperature pretty quick with just a metal pipe and blow drier. 

We'll see how it goes. I work with wood for a living; metal is a whole new adventure. But the basic idea is the same.