[TheForge] Wrought iron chain?

[Ralph]

At 07:59 PM 2/12/04 -0800, you wrote:
>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.

Not sure I want to have the time on my hands like you do, errr or at least 
for the same reasons...
Are you willing to sell any?
Ralph

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