Smelting Wootz in 25kW Induction Forge

[@ThatWorks]

Now that's freakin awesome

[@Rosewayforge]

Are we going to be seeing an induction forge and wootz blades in the near future for your channel now.

[@donaldneill4419]

This is incredibly cool. I had no idea you could make Wootz with an induction furnace. Well done!

[@computername]

I had this process in mind for a long time. Since I couldn't really find anyone doing it, I assumed there's a snag. Now this is great, I can finally convince myself to get one of those induction heaters. Thank you so much, for sharing your technique.

[@jeffreydauterman]

This is freaking awesome!!!!

[@timberanvil3788]

Been doing this since December with a 15kW (350g ingots). I use a small C-clamp on the pedal instead of a heavy weight. Nice demonstration!

[@burningsky8372]

What kind of materials are you using for the feeder material?

[@mgannotti]

This is awesome!!!!!

[@timjackson5555]

Great job Brett !

[@skash416]

This is awesome content! Keep it up fellas!

[@Maksim-lz3og]

altho keeping in the liquid phase for 10-20 min is ok, to properly form a dendrite structure, wootz vs just a piece of steel, it has to cool down slowly for about 12 to 24 hours.

[@burningsky8372]

After a great conversation with Jin at @wootzmilitaria I have decided to build a small chamber from refractory - the size of the crucible - with the coils cast into it. Our thinking there is we need more thermal mass to slow the cooling phase down to form the dendritic structure.

[@checoleman8877]

Man if i had one of those id be making crucible steel out of EVERYTHING!

[@burningsky8372]

Easily done. However I strongly suggest spending some time learning about Crucible steel and wootz. It is a very deep rabbit hole.

[@checoleman8877]

@@burningsky8372 I've watched a lot of videos about it but that's about the only thing I have found that isn't referring to an industrial process

[@carlwhite8225]

This is really cool, Thanks.

[@nevillesavage2012]

Gotta have some Vanadium in there for good patterning :)

[@zebdeming]

You don't need vanadium, you just need a carbide forming element, which he has in this

[@checoleman8877]

This is awesome!!!

[@PackthatcameBack]

For real Wootz I seem to recall that the secret ingredient was either a piece of previous Wootz steel, or some magnetite. Also, would have been great to see how the steels turned out in the end.

[@buny1p967]

I thought it was the presence of the trace element of vanadium to get that beautiful grain structure

[@burningsky8372]

@@buny1p967ideally yes. Vanadium is one of the strongest Carbide Forming Elements and was vital to pattern forming. However- at the time of this demo the only CFE we had on hand was Titanium (also a CFE just not commonly used).

[@jesseayers7933]

When will we see the finished blade ?

[@CoalIronWorks]

Follow @burningskyforge on instagram to follow along with the project!

[@frenchcreekvalley]

I wonder how much carbon was added to your mix from that graphite crucible itself.

[@chrisgriffiths2533]

Good Point, You No Longer Need Coal to Make Steel.

[@JoeBusic]

Use the green button instead of the pedal

[@miketruby5983]

Silly question here, but im curious, are induction forges to be used strictly for iron based alloys or could it be used with other metals? or just ferromagnetic metals only?

[@computername]

From memory - with non-ferrous metals a crucible is needed that interacts with the electric field. So in that case, it's the crucible heating the metal. The induction furnaces sold online for smelting come with both. Sadly I can't find the explanation now that I saw a while ago. In the ebay ads it's white (quartz?) and a black (clay graphite) one. For non-ferrous you'd have to use both together. One fits in the other.

[@toadpond101]

Would this process work with the Coal Iron 15kW?

[@wootzmilitaria]

15KW should be enough to make steel molten, just may take a little time

[@burningsky8372]

This should work. You may have to adjust the charge size and/or time parameters.

[@zebdeming]

Not to be a nerd, but you are melting, not smelting. Smelting is a chemical process of reducing an ore to a metal

[@CoalIronWorks]

Very much welcoming of nerds here, we appreciate the correction- we're kind of new to the space :)

[@zebdeming]

Not a problem at all, hope my comment didn't come across as being a know it all. I've done all kinds of this stuff and if there's anything I can do to help out, I'd be more than happy to.