[MR] Fwd: Re: Wootz Steel

[Steven Chang]

Forgive my ignorance, but I thought Wootz iron ore is only available from a
mine that no longer produced ore? I thought nobody knew the actual
composition of the original Wootz iron and while the metal carbide banding
pattern has been recreated, nobody knows if this is really the same Wootz
since it was made a different way?



On 10/4/07, Cecelia Hughes <hughescecelia at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, meant this to go to the list...
>
> Graidhne
>
> --- Cecelia Hughes <hughescecelia at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 05:15:29 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Cecelia Hughes <hughescecelia at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [MR] Wootz Steel
> > To: David Chessler <chessler at usa.net>
> >
> > Ariadne the Flaxenhaired, who lives just over the border in Charles
> > Town, West Virginia, has been smelting her own iron ore in her
> > backyard.  She built the smelting furnace herself, and has done
> > similar
> > stuff at Pennsic.
> >
> > On the 20th of October, the Shire of Abhain Ciach Ghlais, justacross
> > the Pennsylvania border in Aethelmearc, is hosting a Metalworkers
> > Symposium.  The flyer I got suggested it would run from smelting ore
> > through forge work, to jewelry making.  Well worth checking out.
> >
> > Graidhne
> >
> > --- David Chessler <chessler at usa.net> wrote:
> >
> > > At 12:00 AM 10/4/2007, Phillip Jones wrote:
> > > >Is anyone in the Kingdom making Wootz or crucible, steel?
> > >
> > > Wootz steel was made by putting wrought iron into molten cast iron.
> >
> > > See Alex Bealer, The Art of Blacksmithing. p.38
> > >
> > > Wrought iron is no longer commercially available. What passes for
> > > wrought iron is  low carbon steel. There was a swedish maker and a
> > > british maker of wrought iron, but, so far as I know, both are no
> > > longer in the business. In any event, they had not been exporting
> > > much to the US. And the Euro is now at $1.42 so it would be
> > > EXPENSIVE.
> > >
> > > Damascus steel was originally an imitation of wootz steel.
> > >
> > > Good luck.
> > >
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