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I just finished hardening then tempering these two bowl gouges in this 2 burner atmospheric forge. The gouges are hard to see cause they were just hardened and are black. The forge is 131/2" on the inside and the forge will quickly rise to 2300 degrees(welding heat), which you can do with this forge).The bowl gouges I milled from 5/8" M2 steel. The gouge is 12" long and I harden 3 gouges at a time when I mill that many.These gouges only needed to be resharpened lightly and a handle made and they were ready to turn out gowls. I am extremely pleased with the way these tools cut. They stay sharp longer than I thought they would and I found out this M2 steel is hard to beat if you want to make turning tools. Any comments or questions about this post would be welcomed. Thanks for looking. Mitch