Wipeout, the process is reasonably easy if you are using a high carbon or alloy steel for the blade, e.g. -- 1084, 1095, 5160 or O1. If you are using stainless then you will need to have a commercial heat treater do the hardening for you. Stainless requires a high degree of precision for heating and cooling to maximize the qualities of the steel, and it is an air hardening steel, not oil quenched. Paul Bos would be my recommendation as well. He is among the very best in the world for all types of air hardening steels, including the newer stuff from Crucible like S30V. If you are using carbon steel I can help you through the process. A lot of it is in my tutorial post, and I gave a more detailed explanation for someone using O1 a few months ago. Do a search for my posts in this forum.