Iron/steel Smelt

[Richard Furrer]

Hello All,
I just had Karl Goebel, an Anthropology student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison come by to learn how to smelt. This was his first try ant anything like this.

Here is the first part of a two part video on what happened:
http://www.doorcountyforgeworks.com/Steel_Making.html

He did well.

Stay tuned for part two to see what was done with the bloom.

Ric

[Tim McCoy]

Truly interesting work & the videos are much appreciated. It is always better to "see" what is done in a process than to read or hear about it. Thanks for sharing.

[Longstrider]

Nicely done Rick You'll have to come over again some time and give us another lesson :)

[Richard Furrer]

You may find this concept interesting:
new listing in "From Dirt to Dagger" in the steel making page

http://www.doorcountyforgeworks.com/From_Dirt_to_Dagger_Video.html
video coming soon


I may be over early next year Strider to see some pieces at the British Museum.
Ric

[OddDuck]

Really neat video, Richard. It's on my list (on the "eventually" side of things...) to make iron or steel from scratch. There's a couple of nice iron deposits in Maine, and I really like the idea of going fromm raw to finished, just to say I did it. What percent, roughly speaking, of the bloom is steel? Do you get a decent yield with the methods that you are using?

[Richard Furrer]

Really neat video, Richard. It's on my list (on the "eventually" side of things...) to make iron or steel from scratch. There's a couple of nice iron deposits in Maine, and I really like the idea of going fromm raw to finished, just to say I did it. What percent, roughly speaking, of the bloom is steel? Do you get a decent yield with the methods that you are using?

The yield on that particular batch was a bit low, but all the bloom was steel..every bit we recovered.

Ric