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From: "Wilky" <carrot@vision.net.au>
Subject: Re: baidarka crooked knives & iron
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 98 09:27:00 PST
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> Professor Craig wrote:
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> >Well there you go. I believe one complaint about wrought iron is that it's
Wrought Iron: Iron+.05% carbon: Fine grained structure,Fibrous: Tenacious, ductile, corrosion resistant, excellent for forging and welding: uses, rivets chains, furnace plates.(Workshop Technology part 2 Education Department Hobart 1966.)
As for swords the good ones were made by a process of beating the steel flat and then folding it and then beating it flat again then folding it again, this process could be done upwards of a thousand times before it was wrapped around the hard core. Most of the secrets of a good sword/knife are in the way they are hardened and tempered.
Cheers
Wilky
Deviot, Tasmania.
"When I can no longer dream, I will die."