Thanks guys. Unfortunately the HT didn't go very well the other night, the viking hardened up just fine but warped near the tang, and the longsword stayed straight and the edges hardened, but I could still easily bend and put a set in it (spine didnt harden). Good news is its no big loss, I pulled the hardness off and have re-normailzed and will run another hardening cycle tonight, hopefully (rained too much to do it last night).
William, as to the fullers on the blades, the answer is both. As you can see from the first pictures of the blades, as they were straight out of the rough forging, the fullers are present. I rough forge my fullers first, then clean and adjust them on the grinder. Forging them in is easy, I use a spring fuller tool, which is an elongated U-shaped spring with two fullering dies on the open end. You place the blade in the fullering dies and strike the tool and when both dies come together it forces the steel together and outwards, making the blade "fuller", hence the term. If you don't get what a spring fuller is from my description, I will be happy to grab a picture of it for you. You can also use a guillotine tool to achieve the same results. or if you have extra arms, a bottom and top set of fullering tools. After I rough forge in the fullers I use the small wheel attachment on my KMG to grind the fullers to a larger and deeper size as well as to clean them up. The fullers are some of the trickiest parts to get right and to prevent them from shifting or becoming too deep/not deep enough. The rough forged fuller creates a fairly nice and straight impression to follow with the small wheel, instead of trying to grind it all in by hand. You can also cut the fuller by hand, but it will probably take you about 6 hours a side, depending on the length. After HT I will touch up the fullers as best I can on the KMG, then go at them by hand with sand paper for the very very fine adjustments.
Hope that helps, if not PM me and I can give a "detailed" process
I will keep you all up to date with the progress. I am trying to get these done here within the next two weeks, and if the HT goes alright, I should definately be able to.