Bloomers and Buttons

881 topics in this forum

1. Shear Steel; The Experiment Begins 1 2 3

   By Will W., April 15, 2018
   • 66 replies
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   • Jerrod Miller
   • March 16

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

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

3. La Farga Catalana 1 2 3

   By Mark Green, April 18, 2015
   • 51 replies
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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
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   • M. Cochran
   • April 10, 2015

5. Roasting ore 1 2 3

   By Mick Maxen, September 8, 2014
   • 51 replies
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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. Questions about Ore

   By Will W., June 29
   • 5 replies
   • 239 views
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   • Will W.
   • July 2

8. Hearth Steel Ala Emiliano

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

9. Shop floor grinding dust? 1 2

   By Jeremy Blohm, June 28, 2018
   • 32 replies
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   • Jeremy Blohm
   • June 3

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

    By Daniel Cauble, December 13, 2017
    • 80 replies
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    • Daniel Cauble
    • May 16

11. [Picture Hvy] Some of my Orishigane for Japanese Blades.

    By Daniel Cauble, December 16, 2017
    • 22 replies
    • 1,099 views
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    • Daniel Cauble
    • May 15

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

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

13. Limonite and cuprite? 1 2

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

14. Saw blade melt (failure?).

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

15. 'Konasamudram' Process 1 2 3 4 7

    By Jan Ysselstein, January 2, 2015   

    • Attempts at Historic Wootz
    • 173 replies
    • 18,395 views
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    • Jan Ysselstein
    • April 14

16. My first smelt attempt (partial success!)

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

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

    By Klaas remmen, November 22, 2010
    • 270 replies
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    • Joshua States
    • February 16

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

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

19. Wootz book by John Verhoeven

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

20. First Tatara Smelt

    By Jake Howard, March 8, 2017
    • 18 replies
    • 1,002 views
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    • JJ Simon
    • November 5, 2018

21. 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
    • 20,882 views
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    • Jan Ysselstein
    • October 19, 2018

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

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

23. Question on Wootz- specifically, old patterns vs. new...

    By Al Massey, June 17, 2018
    • 5 replies
    • 427 views
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    • Tim Mitchell
    • August 23, 2018

24. Iron ore locations

    By Jeremy Absher, June 26, 2018
    • 7 replies
    • 614 views
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    • justin carnecchia
    • August 12, 2018

25. Magnetite

    By Will Urban, July 23, 2018
    • 0 replies
    • 224 views
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    • Will Urban
    • July 23, 2018