[TheForge] Wrought iron chain?

Fri Feb 13 10:50:04 2004

Works well on hawks also.
More surface to show grain, just put steel in last fold.

dan tull
georgia
abba, afc, S.C. psba, obg,sofa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Vida" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:59 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Wrought iron chain?

> 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.
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