Wootz

(Great) success

Two bars of  Wootz

8x22x250mm, half of A2 ingot, smelt Dec 2011.

Forged first with springhammer 20kg,

then  airhammer(30-40kg?) Sweet.

15x25x300mm half of nro:7 A5 ingot, smelt Jan 2011.

Forged with same airhammer

That bigger ingot half (7th) rolling on smithys corners(waste:)) allmost a year.

Ingot nro:7  Been hot? (Ollut kuumana) pic date 23012011

 Other half, forged about a year ago.

There is some progress, foging a Wootz :D,

or it been bit a raw until now;)

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Crucibles.

I get few new crucibles

A1-A4 Super Salamanders,

G105-G106 Fossati printed graphite crucibles,

A20 Super Salamander

 

For these little cruz, I made new gas furnace
 My first gas powered crucible oven. 

Materials: old gasbottle, russian firebricks, refractory casting mass.

Lid.

This is an old project last Feb, only few days and then try how it whine.

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