ANST - Smelting Iron
Mark.S Harris
rsve60 at email.sps.mot.com
Wed Jun 10 07:06:07 PDT 1998
Joe Wolf wrote:
> 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?
>
> Lord Manfred Wolf - Budding knife maker, but tired of stock removal
> Barony of the StarGate, Ansteorra
For an amusing, interesting story of a group that built a smelter at Pennsic
and actually smelted a small quantity of iron, take a look at this file
in the PENNSIC section of my Stefan's Florilegium files:
P-tale-MWIFO-art (23K) 8/26/96 Making Wrought Iron from Ore at Pennsic 24.
While this will get you wrought iron, you will want to know a bit more about
turning this raw material into a blade. For this, take a look at this file
in the CRAFTS section of my files:
bladesmithing-msg (39K) 8/14/97 Steel sources, making knives and swords.
The following files will also give you some ideas about the other equipment,
resources and procedures needed.
bellows-msg (19K) 4/ 2/98 Medieval bellows.
blacksmithing-msg (45K) 3/25/97 Blacksmithing, forges, tools.
blksm-anvils-msg (36K) 3/31/97 Blacksmithing anvils. sources.
blksm-forges-msg (27K) 1/16/97 Blacksmithing forges. sources.
blksm-welding-msg (23K) 3/25/97 Forge welding. fluxes.
My files can be found at:
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/rialto/rialto.html
I watched William the Smith and his group build another smelter at Pennsic XXV.
I would love to help out if some folks wanted to try this at a local event.
Ld. Stefan li Rous
Barony of Bryn Gwlad
stefan at texas.net
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