[TheForge] pure iron

[Roy Wilson]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:10:09 -0500, Ralph Sproul wrote:

>        The thing that amazes me about this stuff I forgot to mention is how
>easily it files.  You end up with piles of filings with little work. It
>almost seems to roll off the work under the file.
>
>Ralph

	You can file it to a wicked edge as well.  I hammered a
couple of broadheads out of it a year or so back for deer hunting. 
Two swipes with a needle file and you can shave with it - for about
48 hours.  Then that weird yellow rust dulls it and it needs a new
filing.

	BTW - in a thin section, it hammers cold just fine.  I had
to "fix" one of the broadheads that bent on a bone.  Two shots each
side with a 12oz hammer and it was back to dead flat.



Roy Wilson
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