Making an Early Iron Age Knife from 100% WROUGHT IRON

[@MenardMetalCraft]

Very fascinating and thorough. Definitely a good watch

[@ValhallaIronworks]

Glad to hear it!

[@gaspermihelj3613]

kenshiro music in a forging video? thats a good one

[@ValhallaIronworks]

Brodin's a massive weeb, so it felt right haha

[@veteranironoutdoors8320]

Oh, I forgot to mention during the premier, with the carburization method you used, you dont have to make that mixture that you plastered to the iron. Just run some charcoal through a blender (I recommend a blender known for good ice crushing) and blend just a couple chunks at a time, if you fill it up even halfway it wont blend more than a few pieces) and fill your crucible with the powdered charcoal. Dont need to add salt or anything fancy, in my tests plain charcoal powder worked as good or better than some mixes. And then shove your knife down in it. If its airtight (enough* my containers arent air tight by any means) the charcoal powder wont burn hardly at all.

[@ValhallaIronworks]

Yeah we came to a similar conclusion, and that's the plan for what Brodin talks about at the end, how he wants to re-carbeurize his now that it's ground more or less to shape! Should be being done soon. We're also going to forge out some thin stock to put in there so we can do some snap testing!

[@dragonstonegemironworkscra4740]

Sully did a thing with a rail spike and forgeweleds cast iron powder to it then for sale a blade w remarkable patterns and does a break test in the end which reviled internal pattern if the break reminisce of wrought

[@jonathanolson2263]

As an American I really appreciate the temp conversion. Thank you!!

[@ValhallaIronworks]

You are very welcome!

[@kdjnhdojgdjjdhrge7824]

bladesmith bro does very good story times.

[@jjppres]

Great video! Shocking results I thought. Happy New Year!

[@ValhallaIronworks]

Same to you!

[@thomasgoodemoot]

Awesome video I love the long videos I learned a lot thank you

[@ValhallaIronworks]

haha I'm glad someone does, man!

[@alienmonkeyblacksmith]

Dude I can’t believe how good that looks 👍 And black really suits you. Oh…. And knife patternation is killer too. 😂

[@ValhallaIronworks]

haha my good fashion sense

[@JackPinesBlacksmithing]

Very cool process. I am glad you took us through your learnings and asides. I’d live to try this. Have to convince my wife that I need a crucible. :D

[@ValhallaIronworks]

haha you definitely should. Though watch the ClickSpring video that I linked about halfway through the video, because he uses clay to wrap his blades, rather than using a crucible!

[@dragonstonegemironworkscra4740]

What an awesome viewing! Thanks. Looking forward to stage 2 test process. Crawford out 🔥⚒️🧙🏼‍♂️

[@ValhallaIronworks]

Happy new year!

[@swblacksmith.7445]

because this is a fun video here I am watching it for the third time.

[@ValhallaIronworks]

haha love it

[@samziegler4957]

Iron age grinders? Do you know how precious that material is? No wastage, or you'll be whipped.

[@kahrhoshe]

Nice hat! :) ❤

[@WildBearFoot]

Had to scroll a LONG way before I found a wrought iron knife that wasn't Damascus, of course it was you. 😂

[@ValhallaIronworks]

I'm always here... Lurking lol

[@RobanyBigjobz]

Fascinating look into historical materials and techniques? Absolutely. Entertaining? Immensely. Brilliant outcome? Definitely. Nod to Deadpool? Worthy inclusion. All the above are fantastic but the absolute, stand-out best thing about this video? Two great mates having a laugh doing epic s$%^ together.

[@ValhallaIronworks]

Who doesn't love some shenanigans??? But I have one small correction... It was a nod to the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" - Deadpool was doing a nod to that film in his post-credits scene! If you haven't seen the movie, I HIGHLY recommend it. It's BRILLIANT!

[@RobanyBigjobz]

@@ValhallaIronworks I'll check it out :)

[@kevinrippeto]

MONTAGE!!

[@ValhallaIronworks]

You ALWAYS need a montage!

[@Mynameischef]

could have melted the iron on the concrete the other week here

[@ValhallaIronworks]

lol I reckon. And carbeurize it, too, with all the pollution lol

[@bigernbladesmith]

Sort of similar to making blister steel.

[@ValhallaIronworks]

Sort of!

[@samziegler4957]

What's the reason for going from crucible to quench? After 10 min at 900c? Seems that if you're skipping over grain refinement after that you'd have to have a very good reason.

[@samziegler4957]

Oh, ok. Thanks future Alex.

[@ValhallaIronworks]

Also don't forget we're recreating early Iron Age process here. They didn't understand grain structures back then.

[@samziegler4957]

@@ValhallaIronworks can I ask what you're basing that on? The published metallographic analyses of European iron age knives, at least the few ones I've read, show that blades have generally excellent heat treatments, with small grain size. I'd be keen to see your research.

[@ValhallaIronworks]

​@@samziegler4957simple logic. Everything new starts with trial and error

[@samziegler4957]

@@ValhallaIronworks hmm. Sounds a bit complicated to me. Still, i really enjoyed the video, and it's inspired me to give it a try, so thank you.

[@jeanladoire4141]

You don't need 60 or even 50 HRC to make a decent knife. Virtually all blades from before the 15th century didnt go nowhere near the 40 HRC mark, sometimes not being tempered at all (10HRC, 20HRC), or partially hardened (30HRC). And somehow they still cut each other into pieces during battles (skeletons found with both legs chopped off clean in seemingly one swing, or skulls with parts sliced off without any signs of crushing trough the bone, the cut was actually clean, and from a sharp blade). They also built cathedrals, and did so many things that required functional sharp blades. And the truth is, it's a pretty modern thing to suppose 40 HRC is soft for a blade. Bronze is barely harder than modern mild steel, and yet razors were found in pharaoh tumbs (so you can actually sharpen it for shaving). Wrought iron is not great, and will require way more maintenance than a modern steel knife, but it will do everything you'd ask a knife to do.

[@stevesyncox9893]

No carbon for the edge either?

[@ValhallaIronworks]

Nope! Just wrought iron!

[@chrisjohn8967]

Great work fellas Skul