[TheForge] Iron Foil

[Cameron Stoker]

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>>From: Jerry Smith <jfsmith at ameritech.net>
>>Date: 2004/10/13 Wed PM 08:15:04 EDT
>>To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Iron Foil
>>
>>Dave,
>>         I am looking for something as thin as steel banding. I can get 
>>lots of bridge girder sized stuff, but I need some thin stock.
>>
>>
>>Jerry
>>

I just realized I've made some small pieces myself. For mokune, I forged 
down some pure iron to about 1/8" x 2" strips and then just used a 
manual jewlers rolling mill.
I took the metal down to approx. 22ga. The cool part about pure iron: it 
dosen't work harden. No carbides to break up smooth crystal planes in 
the metal. I went from 1/8" all the way down without annealing! If you 
only need small pieces this might be a viable but somewhat tedious way 
to get them.


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