Adventures in fire and iron.
Loading...
42
subscribers
27,339
video views
Uploaded videos
1-10 of 11-
Back yard Tamahagane. Welding the billet.
steelace1p1
1,548 views
I took some of my home made Tamahagane and welded a billet.
The video is the 3rd heat, I think. I am using a section of 100 year old, wrought iron wagon wheel as a spatula...
-
Back yard tamahagane
steelace1p1
3,483 views
I thought I would post an easy way to make simple steel, very much like Tamahagane.
Thanks to Arik Estus, I was able to use pure iron in a simple "stack bloom", or simplifi...
-
How I fly to work.
steelace1p1
191 views
A little esoteric, for the Zelda fans out there.
See "Hyoi pear"
I'll post the sword progress soon. Just a little spacer. *wink*
-
Random dash cam
steelace1p1
578 views
I put a camera in my car. I drive a 100 miles a day on the freeway, back and forth to work. Been doing that commute for 24 years. I've seen a lot of "stuff" happen over the...
-
Blue Halo Ch3
steelace1p1
1,314 views
Moving along, getting close to heat treat, carburizing and casting the hilt.
-
BlueHalo Chapter2
steelace1p1
940 views
Second installment.
Notice I got rid of the awful ring in the anvil.
This pretty much wraps up the rough forging part. Also starting on the wax patterns for the hilt.
...
-
Forging the Blue Halo, chapter 1
steelace1p1
1,870 views
The first installment of my latest sword project. A one hander I call the "Blue Halo".
The design is a blend of 3 types of single handed swords. A Chinese Jian, a Vikin...
-
Early thermite run
steelace1p1
720 views
One of my early runs. about a 10 pound charge. I have a catch crucible in a bed of charcoal, fed with 2 tuyeres.
As it burned down, it breached the side and into the ho...
-
Making a tungsten alloy with thermite/boiling iron
steelace1p1
2,594 views
My Star chamber alloy making furnace.
I use thermite to alloy refractory alloying chems, in this case, a chrome molly, nickel, niobium, tungsten alloy. When the liquid iron...
-
thermite powered, alloying furnace
steelace1p1
877 views
December 8th, 2007. Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
The proto run of my thermite powered, exothermic alloying furnace I call the Star Chamber.
I successfully alloyed ...
Advertisement
About Adventures in fire and iron.
Bladesmith pariah.
Engineering tech for the Navy in early-mid 80's. China Lake. It was the hight of the Reagan era, after all. The best minds money could buy. Learned lots.
Working for the world's largest aerospace company for on 24 years..
Rebel scum.
less
Bladesmith pariah.
Engineering tech for the Navy in early-mid 80's. China Lake. It was the hight of the Reagan era, after all. The best minds money could buy. Learned lots.
Working for the world's largest aerospace company for on 24 years..
...
more
more
less
Play all(11)