I am hanging doors and doing it the old-time way but this requires some modification to some of the miscellaneous hardware I have garnered to get the job done. If I am to re-form, lets call it a big iron forged spike, that will get pounded into a pre-drilled, this is no hole it is more of a mortice, in a post, how will I go about treating the spike further after I have heated and shaped it on the anvil? Do I:
let it cool in the air and nothing else
quench it
quench it and anneal it after that
It's a simple project for a simple-smith.