The Rockbridge Bloomery
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Description: Offering an overview of smelting, furnace construction, and smithing. Includes step-by-step instructions.
Experimental Iron Production at The Rockbridge Bloomery In January of 1998, inspired by accounts of traditional iron smelting in Africa, I decided to see if I could make some iron myself. I enlisted my curious friend Skip, and together we've built two furnaces, and sweated through many trials. Although we've almost always managed to make some iron, it wasn't until the spring of 1999 that we began to smelt wrought iron blooms of reasonable quality and size. In March and April of 1999, in three consecutive smelts, we produced dense, forgeable blooms of 40, 20 and 25 lbs. Now in 2006, we
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| Page title: | The Rockbridge Bloomery |
| Keywords: | Skip Williams Lee Sauder bloma luppen rennofen osemund eisenfeuer iron smelting bloomery limonite haematite magnetite furnace fayalite castiron steel wrought historic research experiment archaeology iron age tylecote crew goodway virginia colonial antebellum charcoal iron ore |
| Description: | experimental iron smelting |
| IP-address: | 137.113.150.141 |
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| Date | activated: 21-Nov-1989 last updated: 04-Aug-2011 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |