What colors do you see in hot steel?

[Momatt]

To my knowledge I am not color blind, however, I never see red in hot steel only shades of orange to yellow then white. I see cherry red on color charts, red cool aid, blood, etc., never in steel. I think I've seen red in a YouTube video of steel never in my forge or on hot metal as it cools through the spectrum

[John McPherson]

Working outdoors in the daytime you will never see the true colors in the steel. At night or stuck in a barrel with the inside painted black, the real heat colors will pop out at you.

[Nobody Special]

Depends on how much light, bright light only orange and up. At night, or under a hood, all the way down to dark red.

[Frosty]

Dim room and maybe a shadow box and NO tinted safety glasses will make the color clear enough that if you still can't see them you need to have your eyes checked.

 

Frosty The Lucky.

[GNJC]

Assuming the set-up is right for allowing a normal person to see heat colours, there are some medical / physical conditions that may prevent other individuals from not being able to do so. Colour-blindness is commonly known of, but some people don't mistake colours for other ones, they simply can't register a given colour at all. This may be due to an inherent problem or due to later injury and damage from.

[oddtodd]

When I need to be that precise I close the big door to my forge. It helps alot. If you are outside forget it. You won't see it until it's real hot.

[Mitsuwa]

I think of it as the same as watching a sunset as far as the color range I see as a piece cools. Having black out curtains over the windows during the day time helps. Should be able to see the black shadows of desaclence too.