Smelting steel is a rather complicated and time-consuming process. However, our ancestors mastered this process and learned from steel to make perfect, excellent weapons, including knives. The secrets of the skill are not lost, and you can independently make a become and a knife out of it.
It is necessary
ore or brown zhelznyak, furnace, coal, ruler, tool
Instructions
Step 1
Take Bog Ore. Swamp ore is understood as brown iron ore, which contains about 30% iron. This type of material lies in the lands among drained or dried up bogs in large layers in the form of a red-brown slurry. It is enough just to scoop swamp ore from the bottom in the amount you need. Prepare charcoal (charcoal).
Step 2
Make a melting furnace with a temporary roof that will be disassembled after melting. The stove can be a simple depression in the ground with a melting bath, which should be lined with stone on all sides and carefully, impeccably smeared with clay so that there are no cracks.
Step 3
Melt the furnace, warming it up to the maximum temperature, lay the prepared ore and coal in layers in the furnace. Keep the heat in the oven at least 400 degrees.
Step 4
Leave the ore and coal to melt for two days, while supplying air to the furnace with bellows. Remove the resulting iron cake from the oven and begin processing to create a knife. At the same time, the iron obtained from bog ore will be quite "pure" with a minimum amount of carbon impurities.
Step 5
Forge a red-hot workpiece in order to remove all kinds of mechanical impurities from it. This requires an anvil and a hammer.
Step 6
Bring the blank to the blacksmith to create the shape of the knife tip, or measure the desired length yourself and cut it out of the prepared steel according to the prepared sample. A blade sample should be drawn initially on paper and then cut out of steel along the contour.
Sharpen the knife with a file or sandpaper.
Step 7
Purchase from a store or make a handle for your knife. You can make a handle for a knife from wood, plastic, electrical tape and other materials.
Step 8
Screw the knife (blade) to the handle. The knife is ready. Depending on the size and type of knife blade, such an object can be used not only at home in the kitchen, but also on hunting, fishing, as a cold weapon for self-defense, as well as as an assistant in the household.
