[TheForge] Fw: [SCA-AS] Interesting Blacksmithing Articles

[Phlip]

a friend of mine in SCA posted this, in caswe anyone on The Forge is
interested. Please don't forward his information the the Usenet groups- he
doesn't like them.

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> http://www.christopp.co.uk/index.asp
> Mary Rose Cannon etc.
>
> http://www.realwroughtiron.com/
> The Real Wrought Iron Company.
> Previously the last place making it was in
> Sweden in the 1960's. These people are
> apparently re-manufacturing old iron.
> Real wrought Iron is fibrous and has
> a percentage of silaceous slag (7% or so)
> worked back into it after smelting it to
> give it it's properties.
>
> Magnus

Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....