Tosspot wrote:
Johan Bornman wrote:
Nowadays with all the spoke options I am hard-pressed to keep, or
indeed, find stock of all the permutations. How do they blacken spokes
and can this be done in a workshop as and when needed?

Can't you just heat them up and dunk them in motor oil. I seem to
recall that from boyhood buggerings about.

not while keeping their full work hardened strength.