[TheForge] Wrought iron chain?

[Andy Vida]

Well, today I found about 70# of wrought iron chain off some marine
machinery whilst walking the knuckleheads by the Columbia River.  It's
machine chain... crap I forget the name... like a motorcycle chain,
only the links are about 8" long.  The side plates are definitely
wrought
and I think the pins are (they are peined over like rivets), but the
rollers might be steel, which would make sense for wear.

The wrought is very fine grained, but definitely it is wrought iron.

I was thinking of using some of this for knives in a sanmai type
construction with 1095 or WHC sandwiched in between.

Anyone ever use wrought iron in a blade before?  I like it for the
grain and the better stain resistance... but mostly the grain. :)

	-Andy

PS: for those of you that have said they can't find wrought iron in
the Columbia, you haven't been looking hard enough.  There isn't as
much as you can find back east, that is for sure, but it's definitely
there.