Howdy all. New to this wonderful site. Astounding amount of knowledge contained herein. All I've done since joining is reading. And of course I managed to miss a few things (well as lot more then a few) before I started forging. I've made a few simple blades before cutting blanks and heating with a torch back in the day. Nothing astounding but they kept the weeds down in our fence rows. So when my niece watched the Forged in Fire show and immediately took a huge interest I figured, oh yeah this'll be easy. Building the forge was easy being a welder. Old brake drum and a metal stand from lord knows what I found in our scrap pile on the farm. Working out how to restrict the air flow correctly running off a hair drier. Using anthracite coal which some despise but it's readily available, burns incredibly hot, and seems to work well. Small anvil (70#) and tongs were my great grandpas. Decent enough setup with basically no money involved. Now here's where the fun starts. Not wanting to waste good steel practicing I started with a 10 inch diameter, 1/4 thick steel pipe and cut blanks. Not black pipe or galvanized by the way. Started figuring out temps to work and hammer methods to shape my steel. Also doing my quench in old engine oil. No cracks or warps. Honestly I and my family were rather impressed by how the blades turned out. But.....here in lies my problem. Never heard of normalizing. Finally came across it in one of the many stickies I somehow missed. Assuming this is like tempering? Either way I'm sure I messed this part up. To temper after the blades were cooled I set them on top of my burning coal. Safe to say my regret was rather instant as they rapidly turned blue though this did pretty much buff out with a grinder. Saw after some reading that many use a toaster oven for this step. Long winded but hopefully this gets most of the info across. So here is my question. Can I reheat treat without destroying the integrity of the steel or should I even bother? I'm assuming I messed it up once it turned blue. Thanks all.