[TheForge] Pure Iron vs. Cast Iron add Double Aught Wrought

[David E. Smucker]

I believe this material is 1006, good stuff, and should work a lot like pure 
iron.  (It has a little more carbon 0.06 of 1 percent, than did pure iron.)

Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Vincent" <nathansforge at comcast.net>
To: "'Sponsored by ABANA'" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 2:02 PM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Pure Iron vs. Cast Iron add Double Aught Wrought


> Many of you know that Mike S. sold his Pure Iron inventory to Roger 
> Duncan,
> a now deceased member of the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland. After
> Roger sold off a bunch of the Pure Iron he scouted out a mill to produce
> smaller sizes of a similar product he named Double Aught Wrought Iron. 
> Roger
> went to many local events selling this and unfortunately died before all 
> of
> the inventory was sold. Over the past 3-4 years Roger's son has had 
> several
> people act as a broker to sell the inventory of Double Aught Wrought. Mean
> while there are still some 5000lbs of 1/4" x 3/4" x 5' pieces left. Now
> Roger's son is subdividing the  farm and donated the inventory to a local
> nonprofit group. I got a call last week from the director of the nonprofit
> all excited that he's got 5000 lbs of "Blacksmith's Iron". They were 
> excited
> because they gave Roger's son a receipt for $6/pound for the donation and
> they thought they would be able to sell it for that to all of the area
> blacksmiths. I explained to him that Roger had already done a good 
> marketing
> job in the area and most of us had more Double Aught than we would ever 
> use.
> I explained that Double Aught was a Boutique product that  wasn't in high
> demand and he might want to lower the price, get rid of the inventory and
> move on. So I think that's where it stands. As of this week he is planning
> to come to Blacksmith Days of the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland in
> Westminster, MD, May 17 and 18 with a trailer load of Double Aught Wrought
> at a greatly reduced price, probably in the $1/pound range. I have no
> interest in this except that I have used it and it is easy to use and 
> soft.
> I will post more when I hear more.
>
>
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