I figured forge welding was all YouTube magic until a guy in Tulsa showed me the real trick
I spent 8 months thinking forge welding was some secret art that only guys with $3,000 propane forges could pull off, mostly because every video I watched made it look like sorcery. Then an old smith named Ray at a hammer-in near Tulsa told me to stop overthinking the flux and just watch the color, and my first billet welded clean on try two. What finally clicked for you, the color of the steel or the sound of the hammer?