A "different" steel
I've been collecting some pieces of wrought iron at work lately, These pieces are coming from some "gob piles" at coal mines that were mined 80-100 yrs ago. Mostly small pieces and I've been cleaning...
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Blister steel or shear steel or "natural steel" with the latter highly unlikely---it's comes from highC blooms and so not too likely using modern methods of WI refining.I'd guess it was something that...
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Thanks Thomas! I've forged a small blade from a piece of this stuff and wrapped some wrought iron around another piece for a "san mai" type blade.We'll see how it works....Randy
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Well, the stuff definitely hardens, I did a quick clay coat and an interrupted quench in water. Randy
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Randy that is gonna look sweet. what kind of handle you gonna put on it?God BlessKenneth
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Looking through some antler pieces right now Ken. This is just a small blade, I am just trying to determine how best to treat the steel before moving on to larger stuff Randy
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that turned out very nice...please keep us up to date on it... that is some very interesting steel you have there... Gregps... i bet if you put it into high polish ... you'd see some very interesting...
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Thanks Greg,I did clay the blade and the upper quench line pretty much follows the clay. I did an interrupted water quench on it too.I think these pieces of steel will product some cool blades, I'm...
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I found a few minutes today to do some more sanding/polishing on this bit of steel After sanding to 2000 grit paper (wet sanding) I etched it in FC again, thought I saw a hint of grain on the blade so...
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bizarre stuff.... wow... it looks like a high carbon wrought... but strange how stringy it is..... it looks to be shallow hardeninghave you tried doing a ladder pattern or eyes to see it the lines...
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I bet you are thinking about a new metal detector for Christmas! Structures, grains, bands and lines! You guys are making me want to go build a fire. Glenn
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that looks like really old authentic wrought iron with high carbon content, the really stringy part shows it is old and true wrought iron. where did you find it? at a coal mine ??? your stringy steel...
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Nice finds scalpcreek! I wish I knew what steel this stuff is but I dont have enough of it get it tested, and no two pieces seem to be the same. I just make things from it and treat it as what it is...
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