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

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.

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

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

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?

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