Met Huey today at the Weatherford Trade days. Awesome experience with the most knowledgeable cast iron cookware person I have ever worked with! High quality goods, superb pricing, and a great RUclips site! Bought several items from him today including the fire pit! Next time I am in Abilene, I plan on stopping by! Thanks again Huey!
There's a skillet at 0:19 with small ears and just an X on the bottom. What is it? It must have been a large foundry because they are from Tennessee to Texas. I have two of em. I was thinking initial skillets had two letters? The wrought iron skillet at 0:22 was made in Saint Louis. I made up this big story about the settlers trading their heavy cast iron for a lighter skillets and my wife was impressed. I hated to tell her it was all crap.
It is an initial skillet. What i found on then was a discussion over if the Foundry owner was illiterate and just used the X instead of initials. Not sure how valid that is, but that's the conclusion they came up with.
The WIRCO is a pretty cool story in itself. The owner started out making his stoves and hollowware out of cast iron, but was getting too much breakage, so he changed to wrought iron since it is not as brittle. I have restored several, and the one thing that I have noticed is that most of them are pitted more than cast iron. Even one I found with 1/4" caked on oil was still pitted. They are great skillets, though.
@@hawgwildcastiron2023 Thank you, I learned something. That is why I never get tired of cast iron there's always something to learn. I have a completely different skillet with two initials on the bottom and they are different on each skillet depending on who molded it. I would like to call this skillet a Blacklock but there's no proof. It has the outside heat ring fitting the skillets of the day. It's actually the one that got me started collecting. I should smash that thing into a million pieces. lol That makes it the most expensive skillet I own !
@@hawgwildcastiron2023 I read where the wrought iron skillets were bad about warping. Mine isn't pitted but it is slightly warped. There's a way to repair a warped skillet. I've worked with metals my entire life and it bothered me that people say that can't be fixed. As it turned out repairing the bottom was never the problem, they were cracking as they cooled down. Now I do all my skillets on a turkey cooker set on hi. I don't let them cool unevenly. I cover them with a fire blanket and heat the crap out of em. When they are evenly heated they can start cooling down still under the fire blanket. I've never had one to bust like this and believe me I've busted a few. Practice with Asian pieces at first. Folks say that sounds like a lot of trouble. I think to myself, I'm not dealing with modern Lodge. I wanted to do it because they said it couldn't be done. Possibly ya can't get a guy with a metal shop to care about a skillet? Now we're getting somewhere! I guess my buddies are thinkin I've gone woke with all these pans. lol
Wish i could walk through that booth. Could be dangerous to my pocketbook. See some great pieces.
Nice iron, Huey! I hope your sales go well. Stay safe and stay cool
NO,,, I wish I could walk in that booth.😢😮
Met Huey today at the Weatherford Trade days. Awesome experience with the most knowledgeable cast iron cookware person I have ever worked with! High quality goods, superb pricing, and a great RUclips site! Bought several items from him today including the fire pit! Next time I am in Abilene, I plan on stopping by! Thanks again Huey!
I hope you enjoy them! It was a pleasure to meet you!
You are going to have to send some pics of that fire pit in action!
There's a skillet at 0:19 with small ears and just an X on the bottom. What is it? It must have been a large foundry because they are from Tennessee to Texas. I have two of em. I was thinking initial skillets had two letters? The wrought iron skillet at 0:22 was made in Saint Louis. I made up this big story about the settlers trading their heavy cast iron for a lighter skillets and my wife was impressed. I hated to tell her it was all crap.
It is an initial skillet. What i found on then was a discussion over if the Foundry owner was illiterate and just used the X instead of initials. Not sure how valid that is, but that's the conclusion they came up with.
The WIRCO is a pretty cool story in itself. The owner started out making his stoves and hollowware out of cast iron, but was getting too much breakage, so he changed to wrought iron since it is not as brittle. I have restored several, and the one thing that I have noticed is that most of them are pitted more than cast iron. Even one I found with 1/4" caked on oil was still pitted. They are great skillets, though.
@@hawgwildcastiron2023 Thank you, I learned something. That is why I never get tired of cast iron there's always something to learn. I have a completely different skillet with two initials on the bottom and they are different on each skillet depending on who molded it. I would like to call this skillet a Blacklock but there's no proof. It has the outside heat ring fitting the skillets of the day. It's actually the one that got me started collecting. I should smash that thing into a million pieces. lol That makes it the most expensive skillet I own !
@@hawgwildcastiron2023 I read where the wrought iron skillets were bad about warping. Mine isn't pitted but it is slightly warped. There's a way to repair a warped skillet. I've worked with metals my entire life and it bothered me that people say that can't be fixed. As it turned out repairing the bottom was never the problem, they were cracking as they cooled down. Now I do all my skillets on a turkey cooker set on hi. I don't let them cool unevenly. I cover them with a fire blanket and heat the crap out of em. When they are evenly heated they can start cooling down still under the fire blanket. I've never had one to bust like this and believe me I've busted a few. Practice with Asian pieces at first. Folks say that sounds like a lot of trouble. I think to myself, I'm not dealing with modern Lodge. I wanted to do it because they said it couldn't be done. Possibly ya can't get a guy with a metal shop to care about a skillet? Now we're getting somewhere! I guess my buddies are thinkin I've gone woke with all these pans. lol