[TheForge] Pure Iron

[Demon Buddha]

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> 
> John,
> It has been reliably reported that pure iron will twist (and bend?) more readily at a moderate (red?) heat than at a high (yellow? orange?) heat.  Apparently, this is not a new observation, either, but was in the literature over half a century ago.  I have none of this first hand.  Contact artandmetal.com for more information.

	I can verify this first hand.  I've now hammered quite a bit of
	this material and it is the one characteristic that can be
	somewhat inconvenient, but it is not so diofficult to learn to
	work around it.