@zmelkoow I do wish people would read the previous comments. This was discussed earlier. The blade was buried in vermiculite to cool down. The omission was mine, I thought looking at a pile of vermiculite a little boring.
Thanks for that, it's just something I put together for long jobs... like swords.
I'm making a two handed falx at the moment, and this device will be two short. I'll either have to make a really looooong forge or pay someone else to do it.
There's only so much you can do in your back yard.
Excuse me if i am a little bit hard now. This wasn't anything...it was just fireing some steel. All typs of hardening, annealing or anything else has to be done to the whole blade. Your blade is to cold in the midle and to hot at the end...for annealing it is to hot in general (may be not in the middle). Give it another try...I just startet so I realy have just a little idea of it.
It's okay, After the video finished I left the sword in the fire for longer so the whole blade was an even heat.
True it was hard to judge under the bright Australian sun. However the video camera is a good tool, picked up the infra red better, so I could tell, by looking at the playback at intervals.
Forge welding is easy and I'm not sure what you consider annealing...'cause that was normalizing. Normalizing is air cooling a blade to soften it. Annealing is softening it by slowly letting it cool down from just above critical (around 750 C).
Forge welding "can" be fickle, especially if you use a gas forge (as I do), or if you aren't careful in your alloy selection. For example if you happen to get an alloy that has too high a suplhur content, then you will be lucky to get a weld hapenning at all.
If I wanted the steel to remain hard, but be a little more ductile, sure I would have normalised the blade.
However I wanted the blade annealed, to soften the steel and to improve machinability. I would have found it hard going to re-grind the blade otherwise.
I can see your confusion, and this is due to an ommission on my part.
After the "money shot", at the end of the video, the blade was buryied in vermiculite and left to cool slowly.
Ty kolo ty se chyba jaja robisz, chcesz rozpalić i podgrzać ten kawałek gówna węglem drzewnym... chyba cie pogieło...i co chcesz z tego zrobić miecz to się człowieku lecz.... Miecz się kuje a nie pierdoli jak widać na tym filmiku... są ludzie udani.
Well forge welding is a fickle beast at the best of times.
However smiths in the dark ages europe were using charcoal to forge weld, and the Japanese sword smiths were doing the same, so it's not outside the realms of possibility.
You would need a nice hardwood charcoal to get the the right temperature, and you would need to choose your metals.
I use a gas forge for most of my work. The forge in the video is for heat treating large objects.
Nice Sword
oisaba1 5 months ago
Mr. Anderson: I like that open air type of tempering furnace. Do you by any chance offer any instructional training classes ??
SpokenOnline 8 months ago
@SpokenOnline :
No classes, but I can be of assistance. I live in Australia, but I know many people around the globe that i would trust to be able to help you out.
Contact me privately, and we'll see if we can sort something out for you.
charlesian2000 8 months ago
Bring back the Fan Dancer ! Also Good Work .
Roddyoneeye 1 year ago
Hey Instead of a blowTorch use this And Ounce of lighter Fluid and a match!
Dalton01Baby 1 year ago
@Dalton01Baby didn't have any handy, maybe next time ;-)
charlesian2000 1 year ago
looks good how did the job turn out ???
yammo12 1 year ago
but also you have to slowly cool it, what you did in this video would be normalizing if anything.
zmelkoow 2 years ago
@zmelkoow I do wish people would read the previous comments. This was discussed earlier. The blade was buried in vermiculite to cool down. The omission was mine, I thought looking at a pile of vermiculite a little boring.
charlesian2000 2 years ago
bien fome tu wea....metete la espada por la raja...mas encima la mina ni un brillo!!!
xabela...
god bless you
Weisstras 2 years ago
nice forge design! Is it yours or did you get the plans somewhere/
XMcBainXUSA 3 years ago
Thanks for that, it's just something I put together for long jobs... like swords.
I'm making a two handed falx at the moment, and this device will be two short. I'll either have to make a really looooong forge or pay someone else to do it.
There's only so much you can do in your back yard.
charlesian2000 3 years ago
Excuse me if i am a little bit hard now. This wasn't anything...it was just fireing some steel. All typs of hardening, annealing or anything else has to be done to the whole blade. Your blade is to cold in the midle and to hot at the end...for annealing it is to hot in general (may be not in the middle). Give it another try...I just startet so I realy have just a little idea of it.
Starfan96 3 years ago
Hi Starfan96,
It's okay, After the video finished I left the sword in the fire for longer so the whole blade was an even heat.
True it was hard to judge under the bright Australian sun. However the video camera is a good tool, picked up the infra red better, so I could tell, by looking at the playback at intervals.
charlesian2000 3 years ago
what was the last music? i tell me something
slylatch 3 years ago
"Anvil of Crom" from "Conan the Bartbarian"
charlesian2000 3 years ago
Forge welding is easy and I'm not sure what you consider annealing...'cause that was normalizing. Normalizing is air cooling a blade to soften it. Annealing is softening it by slowly letting it cool down from just above critical (around 750 C).
Cstrife234 3 years ago
Forge welding "can" be fickle, especially if you use a gas forge (as I do), or if you aren't careful in your alloy selection. For example if you happen to get an alloy that has too high a suplhur content, then you will be lucky to get a weld hapenning at all.
charlesian2000 3 years ago
If I wanted the steel to remain hard, but be a little more ductile, sure I would have normalised the blade.
However I wanted the blade annealed, to soften the steel and to improve machinability. I would have found it hard going to re-grind the blade otherwise.
I can see your confusion, and this is due to an ommission on my part.
After the "money shot", at the end of the video, the blade was buryied in vermiculite and left to cool slowly.
charlesian2000 3 years ago
the air was to make the fire
Supertomiman 3 years ago
Ty kolo ty se chyba jaja robisz, chcesz rozpalić i podgrzać ten kawałek gówna węglem drzewnym... chyba cie pogieło...i co chcesz z tego zrobić miecz to się człowieku lecz.... Miecz się kuje a nie pierdoli jak widać na tym filmiku... są ludzie udani.
Kubica2548 3 years ago
i just use car fuel on the charcoal way faster:P
olivierwhite92 3 years ago
I did a rough forge to shape then tidied it up with an angle grinder, and a linnishing belt.
charlesian2000 3 years ago
how did you get the blade that shape befor you put it in there?
fabstep2 3 years ago
Hey, do you think you'd be able to get that charcoal forge hot enough to forge weld?"
gragh 3 years ago
Well forge welding is a fickle beast at the best of times.
However smiths in the dark ages europe were using charcoal to forge weld, and the Japanese sword smiths were doing the same, so it's not outside the realms of possibility.
You would need a nice hardwood charcoal to get the the right temperature, and you would need to choose your metals.
I use a gas forge for most of my work. The forge in the video is for heat treating large objects.
charlesian2000 3 years ago
grit very good!and good miusic
nyllet41 3 years ago