Bloomers and Buttons

883 topics in this forum

1. Shear Steel; The Experiment Begins 1 2 3

   By Will Wilcox, April 15, 2018
   • 67 replies
   • 3,343 views
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   • Will Wilcox
   • November 11

2. Definitions and history of "Wootz" and such 1 2 3 4 5

   By Vern Wimmer, December 9, 2017
   • 120 replies
   • 3,878 views
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   • Jan Ysselstein
   • December 27, 2017

3. La Farga Catalana 1 2 3

   By Mark Green, April 18, 2015
   • 51 replies
   • 8,944 views
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   • Mark Green
   • July 9, 2015

4. The Catalan forge... "Farga Catalana" 1 2 3 4 6

   By miquel, December 26, 2012
   • 138 replies
   • 33,130 views
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   • M. Cochran
   • April 10, 2015

5. Roasting ore 1 2 3

   By Mick Maxen, September 8, 2014
   • 51 replies
   • 10,535 views
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   • owen bush
   • September 29, 2014

6. Tatara / tamahagane 1 2

   By Niko Hynninen, September 21, 2009
   • 36 replies
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   • Niko Hynninen
   • January 13, 2011

7. First smelt failure post-mortem analysis

   By Drepanon, April 3, 2017
   • 21 replies
   • 2,111 views
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   • Alan Longmire
   • November 13

8. First crucible steel puck going for wootz. 1 2

   By Will Urban, August 23
   • 25 replies
   • 936 views
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   • Tim Mitchell
   • November 1

9. 'Konasamudram' Process 1 2 3 4 8

   By Jan Ysselstein, January 2, 2015   

   • Attempts at Historic Wootz
   • 177 replies
   • 19,359 views
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   • Jan Ysselstein
   • October 26

10. My initial journey into crucible steels. 1 2 3 4

    By Daniel Cauble, December 13, 2017
    • 85 replies
    • 3,193 views
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    • Daniel Cauble
    • October 5

11. Rust as ore?

    By SteveShimanek, October 3
    • 2 replies
    • 114 views
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    • SteveShimanek
    • October 4

12. Georgian 'Bulat' technology by Zaqro Nonikashvili 1 2 3 4 11

    By Klaas remmen, November 22, 2010
    • 271 replies
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    • Jan Ysselstein
    • September 1

13. [Picture Hvy] Some of my Orishigane for Japanese Blades. 1 2

    By Daniel Cauble, December 16, 2017
    • 35 replies
    • 1,617 views
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    • Daniel Cauble
    • August 23

14. Questions about Ore

    By Will Wilcox, June 29
    • 5 replies
    • 492 views
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    • Will Wilcox
    • July 2

15. Hearth Steel Ala Emiliano

    By nprovos, April 15
    • 18 replies
    • 796 views
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    • Mark Green
    • June 10

16. Shop floor grinding dust? 1 2

    By Jeremy Blohm, June 28, 2018
    • 32 replies
    • 1,225 views
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    • Jeremy Blohm
    • June 3

17. Cross Sectioned My first Bloom, What Exactly Am I looking At?

    By Matt S, May 13
    • 7 replies
    • 265 views
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    • Alan Longmire
    • May 13

18. Limonite and cuprite? 1 2

    By Zeb Camper, April 6
    • 36 replies
    • 975 views
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    • Eric Morgan
    • April 29

19. Saw blade melt (failure?).

    By Zeb Camper, March 24
    • 9 replies
    • 418 views
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    • Zeb Camper
    • April 27

20. My first smelt attempt (partial success!)

    By Andrew W, February 25
    • 20 replies
    • 688 views
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    • Joshua States
    • April 5

21. early medieval steel. to bloom or not to bloom?

    By James Simonds, January 14
    • 2 replies
    • 441 views
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    • James Simonds
    • January 14

22. Wootz book by John Verhoeven

    By Tim Mitchell, August 24, 2018
    • 14 replies
    • 938 views
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    • Alan Longmire
    • November 10, 2018

23. First Tatara Smelt

    By Jake Howard, March 8, 2017
    • 18 replies
    • 1,114 views
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    • JJ Simon
    • November 5, 2018

24. In Search of Hamon, Experiments at the Forge #1 1 2 3 4 5

    By Jan Ysselstein, August 16, 2015   

    • Sole Smithing in the BoneYard
    • 116 replies
    • 21,297 views
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    • Jan Ysselstein
    • October 19, 2018

25. Believe-ability of "primitive" iton smelting videos

    By JeffEvarts, September 25, 2018
    • 2 replies
    • 549 views
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    • Joshua States
    • September 26, 2018