I'm so happy I randomly subscribed to a channel about something I had absolutely no interest in, no idea how anything about it worked... A really random and happy encounter. Awesome stuff
Guilherme, I feel in love with this stuff by accident too! I somehow fell into this channel randomly and I've been binge watching a ton of forging stuff ever since! I never had any interested in forging until I came across this.
I could watch this stuff all day! Fascinating to say the least. I don’t have to tell you to make something cool, because that is what you do. Can’t wait
I am an Artist who's worked with the general mediums like wood, fibres, plastics, paints etc but never anything with metals..I sit entranced every single time I watch your smithing. Amazing work and such fine craftsmanship!
Hey, maybe put in texts in your video's if you can, Like i wonder what did you use for base metals, how long did you run the furnise. Verder altijd mooie dingen die je maakt !!
reminded me about the secret of wootz video from mike loades, if i remember correctly they used a similar process. Are you expecting to find a wootz pattern? exciting stuff, great video!
Philip Dunn this was the first try. I made some changes and am almost ready for the next. Have to reduce the carbon content as Far as I can. Preferably around 1% not aiming to make wootz.... But the heat required is extreme.
Would brushing the interior of the crucible with liquid paper (read: white correction fluid) before adding the charge help everything to release more easily after firing ? If it works for mosaic damascus i'm guesson it should work for crucible steel.
Kevin Garcia i hope ya know the swords name.was only an inlay and miss spelt lots over 100s of years due to ppl many moons ago tryin to copy a master smith like our floki 😉
you sir are naive, there are several hundred original Ulfberht in various museums and they were not just a name but a very particular style and production method... and you obviously do not understand metallurgy because crucible steel sword is not a "pored" sword, its first formed into a puck then forged to shape which straightens it. Get learned once again, a Viking Style Sword ≠ Ulfberht
curious to what he put in the crucible, looked like mild steel, and cast iron? That would certainly average out the carbon, but i'm used to seeing just mild steel, or wrought, and graphite added with glass at top, or some high carbon bearing material like ground charcoal.
The Mad Man -At- Duncan Junction you see people do that. But the steel shrinks when cooling down. It is laying loos under the glass layer. I wanted to show that.
Woah! getting the ingot out of the crucible must have been hard. Would it be possible to use iron ore and some charcoal and glass in the crucible? Thanks for the enlightening video
Mr. Wiring a I've seen this done on several occasion and others have used green glass. Is there a difference ? If so what is it. Thanks for sharing I look forward to your response. Martin
@@freerkwieringa275 there is more green bottle glass in circulation than clear...maybe it was a case of people following the first videos of the technique as closely as they could?
You don't want to use a graphite crucible. That's what it appears to be anyways. The molten iron will absorb the carbon from the graphite. I still enjoyed the video.
Metallurgic investigations have revealed that wootz contains trace elements like vanadium. The process of refining steel and obtain wootz is very complicated and has been a secret through the ages. A lot of knowledge had been lost when the original ores were no longer available.
Yeah, I read something about that, I forget where. These guys had supposedly been able to replicate it. Their process was VERY similar though... The broken glass, the crucible sealed with the clay, all that stuff.... I assume that's what Freerk was trying to do....
@@1959Berre From discussions, I'm not convinced it's vanadium, which Pendry and Verhoeven have fixated on *is* the secret sauce. Wootz is a very dirty steel, despite proclamations to the contrary on the subject of metallurgical cleanliness - primarily because historically, cleanliness has been described as a freedom from inclusions, not a freedom from tramp elements (like phosphorus). And it is the phosphorus content that is monstrous in all examples of metallurgically assessed wootz so far. There's a sample of wootz that does not display trace vanadium at all, but does contain appreciable manganese and lower phosphorus than all others. This points to phosphorus being the actual cause of wootz banding, which we already understand the mechanism for from Bessemer steel, where ferrite-pearlite aggregate steels would show bands of pearlite and bands without it, in compositions that should have been uniformly pearlitic. Manganese forced phosphorus to segregate to grain boundaries, and is usually a cause of temper embrittlement, whereas vanadium has a mild reducing effect on TE. The *very* trace values of vanadium in most wootz seem too low to even have a segregation-to-screw-dislocation effect and I've never been comfortable with their explanation...
Ya know i love ya.. was certain you was about to speak at the start of this 😂🤣😂 just a sound . Lol mate is there some way i can pm you ? Id love to work with a master as you are . My sons 21st soon he works outdoors id love him a knife for life
Freerk Wieringa I see that for sure, you do very nice work and I can tell you take great pride in it. I can see why you would want to get it refined before you make something with it. I am looking forward to seeing the end result, thank you sir for sharing
la forge montagnarde yes it is. It has a high carbon content. Around 2%. It has to be forged for several days to become workable in a very narrow temperature range.
If you're going after Wootz Damascus steel, you probably will have to go to Jordan to get the ore. But I think it's going to be interesting what you come up with. Awesome work as always.
Hi Freerk I thought you might enjoy this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OP8PCkcBZU4.html The Secrets of Wootz Damascus Steel The Mike Loades Channel A 50-minute documentary about the legendary Al Pendray, together with two swordsmiths from Jordan, and their quest to produce authentic wootz Damascus steel with ores mined from a historical mine in Jordan - a mine that is known to have produced weapons for Saladin himself.
the crucible steel still gonna use long efter take a look about krupp and his fat steel ingot, is one of the reason why the germans have good steel during the ww2