ANST - Smelting Iron and case hardening
Alexis
drwise at swbell.net
Wed Jun 10 09:21:12 PDT 1998
Joe Wolf wrote:
>
> With all this talk of case-hardening chain shirts and building firepits, I thought I'd make an initial inquiry to this learne'd list:
>
> How would one go about smelting a small quantity of iron? Say, large enough for a dagger. I understand that a large quantity of ore is subjected to high heat until a "bloom" of iron makes its way to the bottom... but what else is involved? Anyone have experience with this, or know some great reference sources?
>
> With thanks!
>
> Lord Manfred Wolf - Budding knife maker, but tired of stock removal
> Barony of the StarGate, Ansteorra
To elaborate in Manfred's first question, does anyone know of a source
for case hardening and/or pricing for said services?
Alexis
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