[TheForge] Pure Iron Update

Sat Aug 3 00:39:01 2002

At 05:29 AM 8/2/02, you wrote:

Mike;
Do we get a last chance to buy from you , or is it over?...Pete F


>Hi All,
>Just wanted to update you on the current status of Pure Iron and the Art &
>Metal Company who distributes it in Europe and the US.  The use of Pure Iron
>in Europe has grown tremendously over the past four years, where here in the
>US, sales or lack of sales volume has caused our host company, Art & Metal of
>Hanover, Mass. to ask that we find someone to buyout their interest and move
>the inventory elsewhere.  They, (a specialty metals distributor) have been
>very kind in allowing the stocking of Pure Iron at their facility and having
>their warehouse crew handle the picking and shipping of Pure Iron for the
>last 2-1/2 years.  There is about 100,000# of inventory remaining and they
>would sell it at cost and throw in the racks, and a Marvel hacksaw if anyone
>wants to pick up the challenge and takeover the business.  We remain puzzled
>as to why Pure Iron use has grown so well in Europe and so poorly here as the
>cost ratio between low carbon and Pure Iron in Europe is about ten times,
>where here it may be around 2 to 2-1/2 times the cost of low carbon.  Perhaps
>a Chapter or group might pick up Pure Iron as a project and make some money
>off it as it will eventually become used by even part time smiths once folks
>realize that the benefits far outweigh the extra cost.
>That's about it, anyone interested please send me a note.
>Thanks to those of you who have used Pure Iron, as we put this together to
>supply blacksmiths (including ourselves)  with the most forgeable iron bar
>and sheet that we could specify, and are surprised that it has not caught on.
>  It's good stuff.
>Best regards,
>
>Mike Schermerhorn
>Pure Iron Spokesman
>c/o Kilo-Sierra Forge
>Sherborn, MA
>
>
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