[TheForge] Mystery steel

[Jerry Frost]

It sounds like a cutting edge (like a grader, dozer, 
etc.) from the description of it's properties. The size 
doesn't add up for any cutting edge I know of though. 
It may be a wear strip or some such.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
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Meadow Lakes, AK.

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From: "Ron Childers" <munlaw2 at hcsmail.com>


Gentlemen & ladies,

I picked up a piece of steel from my junk pile 
yesterday to make a tire iron
for a walk behind tiller. I thought it was mild steel- 
it is about 3/4"
wide, 1/8" thick abt 18" long. It has a 1/2" sq hole in 
one end. It is
extremely hard to bend and resisted a 36 grit grinding 
belt, barely knocking
the rust off. The sparks are a bright red, no sparkles 
@ the end and only 3
or 4" long. Wrought has longer sparks and I know it 
isn't cast iron.

Does any one have any ideas or speculation on what it 
is? I have no idea as
to its origin, but I think it would make a good blade.

Thanx,

Ron C