Crucible Steel Wootz Melt - Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2022
- Peter walks through the chemistry and structure of the ingots, post melt, and explains his method for forging. As predicted, the high-nickel ingot fails spectacularly (and Peter explains why)!
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Wow this explains so much. Will need to listen a few times to let it all sink in
Thank you for taking the time to teach us, learned alot and understand now why copper and steel are hard to forge
Very helpful and informative. Thank you
Thar was really interesting. It reminded me of videos I've watched on the formation of snowflakes
This seems to be the same mechanics as when crust forms from magma. The impurities, in that case, is what makes the crystallisation of rubies etc possible
Other youtubers I have seen forging Wootz seem to go much more gently to begin with, in and out of the forge multiple times and going easy with a hand hammer before moving to a press or power hammer and really start putting the squish to it to prevent the ingot cracking or crumbling.
What IS the optimal Time to let cool a wootz ingot ? Thanks you very much for your very good teaching on this kind of Steel, sorry for my language i'm french
Is it possible to make a high carbon woods steel fire steel for spark fire lighting?? Using a simple clay forge and bag bellows by hand?
You’ll be pumping those bellows real hard. Get some help and you might maintain sufficient temp while you run around trying not to run out of fuel.
al pendray puts his ingots through multiple thermal cycles (4-6) to get the crystal size down, and he bakes it in charcoal for a day to control the carbon on outer surface. the higher carbon on the outside prevents cracks. he never mentioned graphite. idk about the nickel.
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work on your audio 😅
Yeah rip pendray. These people don't know what they are doing, they just don't have all the knowledge. I mean al had 2 doctorates in metallurgy working with him to get it down to a science.
AP actually roasts it in iron oxide to remove the carbon in the skin to rim it and leave a malleable surface
Yes! Awesome video. Years ago I have swung the hammer a few times myself. In fact, my lovely wife would wake me up from a dead sleep and inform me that my twitching hand woke her up. Now I want build medevil oven and wake her up operating a bellows.
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