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This is a very big achievement for me. I have finally been able to take on forge welding as a means of adding mass to already existing material.
As you can see in these images. I have held nails together using some bailing wire and then put it in the forge and heated up to VERY high temperature. This is not melting, smiths don't melt and pour things. We take things and forge weld them together into a solid mass by carefully hammering it with sharp fast taps.
This particular sort of forge weld is called a faggot weld. Think of it like a faggot of sticks or a pack of fags. Rods bundled together.
The weld isn't very good at this moment, but that is because I ran out of fuel when trying to finish up the last bit.
The borax I have just recently bought has GREATLY affected my ability to forge weld and I could probably do all sorts of freaky crap in that fire.
THE VERY FACT I CAN TAKE SCABBY, DISGUSTING, RUSTY NAILS AND FUSE THEM INTO ONE BAR IS A MILESTONE FOR ME!
As you can see in these images. I have held nails together using some bailing wire and then put it in the forge and heated up to VERY high temperature. This is not melting, smiths don't melt and pour things. We take things and forge weld them together into a solid mass by carefully hammering it with sharp fast taps.
This particular sort of forge weld is called a faggot weld. Think of it like a faggot of sticks or a pack of fags. Rods bundled together.
The weld isn't very good at this moment, but that is because I ran out of fuel when trying to finish up the last bit.
The borax I have just recently bought has GREATLY affected my ability to forge weld and I could probably do all sorts of freaky crap in that fire.
THE VERY FACT I CAN TAKE SCABBY, DISGUSTING, RUSTY NAILS AND FUSE THEM INTO ONE BAR IS A MILESTONE FOR ME!
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Not at all. That's where the borax flux comes into play. See, it basically leaves the entire area clean and stuff. When steel is in the forge, it "Rusts" in a way of its own. That's scale. The bright grey tinkly stuff that flakes off of the metal is just heat induced rust, oxidization. The welds are just fine.
To make this welds better, you can cut it in half, stack and forgeweld again. And do it again, and again, and again... This way bad welds will be greatly compressed and eventually be squished enough to break into smaller, shorter pieces, and with each consequence weld this pieces will become smaller and smaller, and if bad pieces are small enough, they won't affect the integrity of steel. Also, that way your pattern will look stunningly beautiful after etching. And, also, you'll train yourself in forgewelding. And after the bad welds will effectively disappear, you can take a piece of high carbon steel, it will be the middle, and two pieces of your resulting nail damascus, and forgeweld that, and make a good knife.
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