Bloomers and Buttons

890 topics in this forum

1. Shear Steel; The Experiment Begins 1 2 3

   By Will Wilcox, April 15, 2018
   • 67 replies
   • 4,350 views
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   • Will Wilcox
   • November 11, 2019

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
   • 9,651 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
   • 34,283 views
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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
   • 26,803 views
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   • Niko Hynninen
   • January 13, 2011

7. 'Konasamudram' Process 1 2 3 4 8

   By Jan Ysselstein, January 2, 2015   

   • Attempts at Historic Wootz
   • 188 replies
   • 21,212 views
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   • Jan Ysselstein
   • March 17

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

   By Will Urban, August 23, 2019
   • 35 replies
   • 1,903 views
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   • Jerrod Miller
   • March 10

9. Phosphorus iron

   By Jack Hirsch, February 24
   • 17 replies
   • 286 views
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   • Jack Hirsch
   • February 25

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

    By Daniel Cauble, December 16, 2017
    • 37 replies
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    • Alan Longmire
    • February 25

11. Pit Charcoal 1 2 3 4 8

    By Jan Ysselstein, February 11, 2014   

    • Saving waste wood carbon
    • 198 replies
    • 34,166 views
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    • Alan Longmire
    • February 25

12. Wootz Hunter video

    By Joshua States, February 11
    • 3 replies
    • 240 views
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    • Gary LT
    • February 14

13. First Hearth Steel of 2020

    By nprovos, January 5
    • 2 replies
    • 378 views
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    • nprovos
    • January 6

14. Reducing carbon for hearth steel

    By Dylan A. Lewis, December 10, 2019
    • 10 replies
    • 366 views
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    • Dylan A. Lewis
    • January 2

15. Winter Solstice Smelt

    By Andrew W, December 22, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 230 views
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    • Kerri Duncan
    • December 22, 2019

16. East Tennessee or western NC smelts

    By Allen Vann, December 12, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 233 views
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    • Allen Vann
    • December 12, 2019

17. I did something cool!! (Or made a big stinky mess)

    By Allen Vann, December 11, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 191 views
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    • Allen Vann
    • December 12, 2019

18. First smelt failure post-mortem analysis

    By Drepanon, April 3, 2017
    • 21 replies
    • 2,346 views
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    • Alan Longmire
    • November 13, 2019

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

    By Daniel Cauble, December 13, 2017
    • 85 replies
    • 3,716 views
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    • Daniel Cauble
    • October 5, 2019

20. Rust as ore?

    By SteveShimanek, October 3, 2019
    • 2 replies
    • 218 views
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    • SteveShimanek
    • October 4, 2019

21. 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, 2019

22. Questions about Ore

    By Will Wilcox, June 29, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 614 views
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    • Will Wilcox
    • July 2, 2019

23. Hearth Steel Ala Emiliano

    By nprovos, April 15, 2019
    • 18 replies
    • 980 views
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    • Mark Green
    • June 10, 2019

24. Shop floor grinding dust? 1 2

    By Jeremy Blohm, June 28, 2018
    • 32 replies
    • 1,438 views
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    • Jeremy Blohm
    • June 3, 2019

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

    By Matt S, May 13, 2019
    • 7 replies
    • 397 views
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    • Alan Longmire
    • May 13, 2019