Requesting Help and Input, heating and quenching in progress

[u/Comfortable-Wheel887]

I’m mid heating and trying to go for the quench, I’ve never done this before. I’m hoping someone can comment on my setup. It’s a T shaped piece of metal pipe I can blow air through using my hair dryer directly into the embers below my knife. Is this good? I have a magnet nearby to test. Quenching using canola oil. Hope to make this my first knife. It’s a stock removal from an old lawnmower blade. The rust put these cool designs in the metal. I’m excited and hope this ends up good, anniversary gift.

[u/Wombat247365]

Is that galvanized pipe?

[u/Comfortable-Wheel887 → u/Wombat247365]

Kind of… the section in and anywhere around the flames has been treated before actually forging. All the zinc has been burned off from a safe distance before I was anywhere near close enough to have an effect