[TheForge] Fwd: bog iron/pig iron to wrought iron

[Daniel Kretchmar]

Greetings,
         A few months back I participated in an iron smelt at the home
of Stewert Stone in Ripon, WI.  He built the furnace out of clay and
pulled out a sizable bloom.  A bunch of us (SCA blacksmiths) heated up
the bloom in a stone forge and pounded it into managable ingots

.....Now a question.  I took the ingots home and I have used my JYH
Tire hammer to pound it into bar stock but somewhere I remember
reading that I should fold and weld it several times to convert it to
wrought iron............Can anyone help me out here?  What's the next
step?

Dan
www.irontreeworks.com