wootz link

feeds@yuku.com (magman357) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:54:25 GMT

Here is a link to a site, don't know if its been posted here before or not but its seems very informative. It will take me a couple times of reading it to grasp it all though. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/profiles/rehren/Metalla%207,%20Akhsiket.pdf. I especially like the technique used to form the crucibles.

wootz/cast iron

feeds@yuku.com (magman357) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:24:42 GMT

Hello

Just was wondering what you all thought about something. The other day I was making some grog in a pit furnace, once I was finished I threw some scraps of cast iron in for fun. Some of it melted so I spark tested pieces of it here and there, some of it was about 1.0 C, or a little more, I added it to my orishigane pile, other pieces remained cast iron, the rest sparked somewere in between. Could this in "between stuff " be around the carbon content of wootz?...

Cable San Mai

feeds@yuku.com (jamesGIII) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:07:49 GMT

This is what left of the cable hawk I started , I drifted the head and missed it up.So I cut the I off and started reforge the bit to a blade. There is a file in there some where. Cable is improved plow share logging cable. Guard if steel. Handle cocobalo and antle crown the finish paste wax. Was going for a boot knife or a bird and trout knife.

shamshir

feeds@yuku.com (DimeNickel) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:49:14 GMT

Hi

here is a couple pic's of a shamshir that i just finished...

now it was forged to shape .... this is the rough forging with bevels..

now to clean it up and get it ready for the heat treat...

new shop, cable bladed seax

feeds@yuku.com (kevin2888) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:51:59 GMT

Greetings Everyone,

It has been awhile since I have had anything to post. I have been very busy, though. We moved into our FIRST HOME! This means that I have been building myself a workshop in one of the bays of the garage.

One comment I would like to make, is that I also finally got a new grinder. It is a Grizzly knife belt sander, because its all I could reasonably spend (college profs don't make a lot). The step up to the 1 hp Grizzly after the 1/3 hp Delta is...

A little blade

feeds@yuku.com (traxxs) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:48:54 GMT

After sitting on the workbench for the last month and after several screwups on the fittings I finally managed to get this little blade finished up.

...

first pattern-welded seax

feeds@yuku.com (kevin the prof) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:49:18 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I have been working on this one for a couple of weeks. It is my first attempt at a pattern-welded seax. It is also the first time I have ever tried to weld together two long bars. The results were pretty good. I have a lot of room for improvement, but this was a big challenge given my level of ability.

So, I have learned that: 1) I need to have the bars meet better before I try to weld them.
2). I should learn to estimate how much stock I need to...

First try at Damascus

feeds@yuku.com (Dbuzbee) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:48:53 GMT

I have been wanting to try some damascus other than cable for some time now. Well I finally got around to getting some steel for it and this is the result so far, now I need to get busy and finish it. The blade is 4" steel is 1080 and 15n20 102 layers and twisted.

David

Knife

feeds@yuku.com (jamesGIII) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:03:10 GMT

This knife i made back when i dumber and younger.Forge welded some strap steel from lowes about 50 pieces.Tried to keep the layers straight.

graphite block for a small crucible?

feeds@yuku.com (traxxs) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:04:36 GMT

Can a solid graphite block be used to make a small cruicble? I need to cast some little parts for a project I got planned and wasnt sure if i could use the graphite o rnot. It's a good sized piece probably 3" square and 7" long or so.

Meteorite steel (finally)

feeds@yuku.com (B Finnigan) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:12:27 GMT

After a few failures I was finally able to get a decent billet of Campo Del Cialo shavings and 1095 powder to weld.

Since the campo assays show it to average 5.5-6% nickel I used a 2:1 ratio to dilute the nickel down to the 1.5 area. That is the amount of nickel that L6 and 15n20 has. Then I added 1% by weight of very finely ground charcoal to perc up the C content.

...

Melt on weekend

feeds@yuku.com (DimeNickel) — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:54:34 GMT

Hi all
made a small melt on the weekend... and have some pic's of the process

Hindoo Process

feeds@yuku.com (DimeNickel) — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:25:57 GMT

Metallurgy

The Art of extracting metals from their ores, and adapting them to various purposes of manufacture.

By John Percy,

1864

Pg. 774

Carburization by Fusing Compact Iron with Carbonaceous...

Hear ye, hear ye, a knife raffle to benefit Brent!

feeds@yuku.com (Radharc 59) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:40:02 GMT
I recently found out that Brent has to have a couple surgeries, along with the accompanying meds, etc. He has no insurance, paid time off, or what have you, it's all coming out of his pocket. Many of you know Brent, and I imagine many of you can understand or sympathize with this sort of situation. I'm personally in good shape, physically as well as financially, and what the heck, have some unsold inventory sitting around, so, I decided to raffle a knife off to help him out. The...

Pattern welded pistol

feeds@yuku.com (Thomas Bog Iron Powers) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:06:16 GMT
go to http://www.wilsoncombat.com/wilson%20combat%20unique%20gun%20gallery/index.html and then it's the 16th and 17th pictures.

Bog Iron

messin around

feeds@yuku.com (magman357) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:15:34 GMT

Hello

Yesterday I found a old barbeque that I'm planning on turning into a forge It had a lot of built up gunk on the inside, so I built a fire to burn it out.
I hooked up a hairdryer to the vent hole just to speed things up, and figured since had a blaze a goin to heat up some steel just for fun....

Interesting paper on pattern welding

feeds@yuku.com (Randy Skidmore) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:24:40 GMT
Here is an article written by Matt Walker on damascus making.

http://www.matthewdwalker.com/damascus_notes.pdf

Randy

HOw is it made?

feeds@yuku.com (traxxs) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:31:24 GMT
http://www.davidsecrest.c...section=patterns&offset=9

How the world is this pattern made !!!

One in the works

feeds@yuku.com (Randy Skidmore) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:55:40 GMT
I came across a spring from an old victrola talking machine, its just the right size to stack up for a billet of patternweld... sparks nice and hardens well in oil quench.
Here is where the blade is now, 21 layer stack of victrola spring and nickel foil. Folded to 63 layers and a ladder type pattern ground in before forging to shape.

"can steel"

feeds@yuku.com (magman357) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:02:16 GMT

Hello.

Lately I've been wanting to make some "can steel". I haven't found much info on making it, and I've never
forge welded. Would forge welding a blade out this way be easier to get a good first weld versus
just having a billet with the ends welded together? And if the steel canister is sealed well and scraps of steel
clean would you need to have some flux in the canister? I know I don't have enough experience yet to
do this but...

Wootz and Pattern Welding

wootz link

wootz/cast iron

Cable San Mai

shamshir

new shop, cable bladed seax

A little blade

first pattern-welded seax

First try at Damascus

Knife

graphite block for a small crucible?

Meteorite steel (finally)

Melt on weekend

Hindoo Process

Hear ye, hear ye, a knife raffle to benefit Brent!

Pattern welded pistol

messin around

Interesting paper on pattern welding

HOw is it made?

One in the works

"can steel"