More woortz...

My meteoritic steel came out with more gas bubbles and inclusions than expected. We probalby should of adding some auminum to degass it. 

I worked it out with hammer and anvil, then hydraulic press, and finally rolling mill to come out with a bar of meteoritic steel.

While I was working on that and my other half of the normal billet, Sandy was working on a Indian push dagger with help from Ric.



And Antonio from Holland was working on a small seascax, which Ric helped him draw back.



I ended up with 2 bars of woortz besides the one of meteoritic steel...



And started converting one into a small beldeque with Larry's advice.



I got that forged to shape and normalized. It's spending the night annealing and tomorow I'll grind and harden it before moving on to Shear steel on Saturday.


 

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