From Wrought Iron to Steel - Making Hearth Steel

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3 жыл бұрын

Ever since I fell in love with swords, knighthood and blacksmithing I've always wanted to make my own steel. Now that dream finally came true and I am happy beyond words.
Hearth furnace was used throughout the history to refine iron and turn it into steel. In a controlled atmosphere iron melts and imbues with carbon from the charcoal.
I dedicate this video to Emiliano Carrilo whose unselfish advice and help made this project possible.
I also give my thanks to Goran, my dear human power-hammer. This would not be possible without you as well.
Timeline:
01:05 - selecting wrought iron
01:50 - checking for fibers to be 100% sure its wrought and now mild steel
02:09 - wrought iron was cut into small peaces, 6x150 grams
02:20 - making ash bed
03:50 - slowly adding iron and charcoal
05:18 - consolidating the puck and celebrating
07:20 - spark test
08:03 - consolidating the puck
10:07 - folding the peace to consolidate and purify the material; this is done at least 8 times
In some future video this steel shall become a knife, so stay tuned!
Emiliano Carrillo:
/ sunandstarsforge
• Hurstwic: Converting B...
Special borax came from:
castrasteel.com
Check out my Instagram as well:
/ poema_incudis

Пікірлер: 53

@stevesyncox9893 Жыл бұрын

Cool stuff! Your furnace is the smallest, simplest I’ve seen. I’m in Northern Alberta. Intend todo a bloom this summer. Thanks guys, great work.

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words. Emiliano Carrilo helped me a lot with this project, so make sure you watch his video as well before you start making. Good luck with the project!!

@stevesyncox9893 Жыл бұрын

@@poemaincudisworkshop4366 , I will for sure! Thanks

@cristianpopescu78 Жыл бұрын

Love it!❤👍

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

@stephaniecaracatsanis3985 Жыл бұрын

Such precise work! You do have some patience to create these pieces. 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

@mrcax5 3 жыл бұрын

pogledao na redditu, dosao ostaviti like. odlicno momci, svaka cast :)

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 3 жыл бұрын

Hvala puno na podršci!! :D

@emanuelebujinkan5165 Жыл бұрын

Nice job 🔥

@hetzijzo5601 Жыл бұрын

Well done

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@franjosiranovic9489 3 жыл бұрын

Bravo Majstori! Čekamo nastavak...

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 3 жыл бұрын

Bude bude :D

@3scort 2 жыл бұрын

Super :)

@theartofchange 2 жыл бұрын

Odlično🖖🏼

@vitezzeleni8664 3 жыл бұрын

Prekrasno! I svaka čast! Baš mi je drago da ti je uspjelo. Ako si u blizini ZG, rado svratim koji put da pomognem s lupanjem :)

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 3 жыл бұрын

Hvala viteže! U blizini Splita sam, pa kada budeš išao na more moja radiona ti je otvorena ;)

2 жыл бұрын

Bravo brate!

2 жыл бұрын

@Poema Incudis asu, kralju, zmaju, školjko 😁💕

@moorhuhn1959 2 жыл бұрын

Legendo!

3 жыл бұрын

Wow nice! My friend Bralson showed me your channel. New sub! ;)

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the support!

@mashoshit99kbr 3 жыл бұрын

amazing there is going to be continuation to this one i hope

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 3 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, there will be ;)

@spellseer 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful work, my man. Video quality/sound quality/editing are all really great. Your workshop looks like such a cozy place. I don't know anything about forging or metalwork; what is the powder that you put on the ingot around 10:25?

@gorantenja 3 жыл бұрын

Flux. A mixture of borax and ammonium chloride is used as a flux when welding iron and steel

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! Glad you like it :D Goran said it all. It also stops the oxidation of steel and keeps the steel clean.

@spellseer 3 жыл бұрын

@@poemaincudisworkshop4366 Ah ha thanks lads. Looking forward to seeing more work in your shop Ivan!

@anteante3022 2 жыл бұрын

💪🔝

@CChan11 2 жыл бұрын

how long did the smelting process take from when you added the first pieces of wrought iron and how much charcoal did you use?

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 2 жыл бұрын

First of all I apologize for my late response. And about the process, well, it was surprisingly short; about 1h I would say, maybe even less. Also about the charcoal, I think I used around 5-7 kg.

@CChan11 2 жыл бұрын

@@poemaincudisworkshop4366 Thanks!

@branni6538 2 жыл бұрын

This is great! I have a few questions if you can help please. Is that just charcoal or coke/coal? Is the bloom/ingot high carbon steel? If so is it full penetration or just surface hardening? Thanks.

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Brann! The charcoal I use in smelting process is a regular old hardwood charcoal. Later i forge the bloom in a mixture of coke and hardwood charcoal (50:50 ratio). By the spark test at 07:24 you can notice that the sparks are indicating a high carbon steel, and I can say that I was very surprised that the carbon got all the way through the material. Forging and folding was mainly done to get the impurities out. If some peaces were lower carbon then the folding would be for that purpose also (which usually is). Hope that helps!

@driplord6150 2 жыл бұрын

@@poemaincudisworkshop4366 could i use like small sheets or strips of wrought iorn instead

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 Жыл бұрын

@@driplord6150 Instead of what exactly?

@driplord6150 Жыл бұрын

@@poemaincudisworkshop4366 could i use wrought iron scraps , to smelt instead

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 Жыл бұрын

@@driplord6150 well here I was using wrought iron bits and peaces, mostly uniformed size. So yes, you can use it!

@ninnakriss 2 жыл бұрын

Famozno!!!

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 2 жыл бұрын

Hvala puno!

@johndoby45 Жыл бұрын

Did you ever try hardening any of this material?

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 Жыл бұрын

Yes I did and it gets a very good hardness. There will be a future video where I forge a blade out of the steel from this video; so stay tuned ;)

@davereeves1967 2 жыл бұрын

@8:58 doesn't heating the steel enough to throw sparks like that cause decarburization?

@poemaincudisworkshop4366 2 жыл бұрын

It does, but the bloom has so much carbon that it is desirable to loose it a bit (it is around 2-3%), and get it to around 1% which is lets say ideal for further work. I have tested the peace afterwards on the grinder and it still sparks those explosive sparks like crazy which means that it's still high carbon.

@branni6538 2 жыл бұрын

Suitable for fire steel sparklers???