I've seen dozens of Iron bloom smelts, but this has got to be the first time I've seen someone take it and forge it out. Excited to see what you do forge it into.
I have a lot of woodworking tools, but I’d love to do some blacksmithing from the ground up (literally), by using old techniques like you’ve shown. Great work, and thumbs up for mum!
I'm simply amazed by the high quality and amount o iron you guys have produced. I've been looking for iron smelting videos for quite a while and you're the best i've seen so far
You guys have no idea how thankful i am for this video, its impossible to find such well documented bloom smelting on yt, thanks. That said the turn test was done at different temperatures so the results varied greatly
Holy crap, your iron looks amazing. Seemingly very little work is required to make it look clean and regular. This puts ancient ironmaking in a totally different perspective. Certainly the real masters back then could've easily processed a thousand pounds of iron in a week, provided they had enough charcoal. A large bloom might weigh a hundred pounds, and a dozen assistants could probably refine all of it into usable bar iron in like a day, which could then be consolidated and reforged and turned into steel eventually.
@@Roylamx no to my knowledge, we don't have any of those kind of lakes in Denmark, fine quartz sand was used as flux. But if the bloom iron is of decent quality it contains enough slag to be self-fluxing. I have forge welded other pieces of the bloom with out borax or any other kind of flux, just with the slag present in the iron.
Very cool! Congratulations on the bloom! You are doing a great job and I wish you a lot of success and fun! Looking forward to your next adventures! And, of course.... Hello to mom!
if I had a million dollars I would just build a smelting plant right on that beach you guys found. this is very impressive, there is alot of iron in your ground eh
this video demonstrates very slowly how the rock actually looks like a rock until you started to hammer it together, its very impressive, television shows always cut out all the "pedantic" stuff because they assume the viewer doesn't want to see it, then the twist test, wooo :) very impressed
Thumbs up favorite mom. Also I'm super surprised the bog iron twisted better than the magnetically purified material. perhaps an alloying agent rode along during the smelt?
For the lower grade iron, what will be done with it? Is there a way to refine it further, like maybe melt it into a crucible and scoop up any slag that floats up?
Planning to re-melt the iron from the bog ore, in a miniature furnace to try and get rid of some of the slag and the phosphorus. Probably making a video on it when we get around to have the spare time to do it.
I've always been aware that we have a lot of black sand at the danish beaches an ever sinde I became aware of the fact that it was magnetite I've been wondering how good it would be for iron refining and I'm happy to finally find a video that demonstrates it. I'm starting to thing that the availability of the ore is unique to Denmark and that might be why this is the first time I'm seeing a good demonstration of it. Thank you. PS. Is this some educational project or just a free time hobby?
Thanks for your kind comment Ninjafox! This is just for the fun of it; a long running project for my brother Sebastian and I believe this was the third year in a row he tried and finally succeeded :) Let me know if you have any further questions :)
you should invest in a 7inch (177.8 mm/17.78 cm) angle grinder you can basically get bigger chunks to work with. and you wont have to be so close to the work piece
It didnt break after seven turns because you have more distance than last time so it looks to me like both pieces were good quality and about the same.
Yes, the quality is quite god nice dense with low slag content, low in phosphorus (around that is allowed in commercial steel), with a bit of titanium (0,025%) and aluminum (0,17%). Unfortunately I don't know the exact carbon content, but there is definitely some feels like a low to mid carbon steel.
I believe it is mostly up to how much effort is put into sorting the magnetite (iron oxide) from the quartz parts of the sand. Maybe my brother Sebastian who knows more about this will add a comment. // Jakob
If it was further refined (more folds and forge welds) it would probably get an increase in ductility. An other reason why it broke sooner than the bog ore iron is that i think it contains more carbon that reduces ductility. Though i don't know if the small amount of carbon (
No, they would have made smaller blooms and cut them with a axe or similar, hot from the Bloomery. No fun cutting them cold even when you got at large angle grinder. -Sebastian
I've seen dozens of Iron bloom smelts, but this has got to be the first time I've seen someone take it and forge it out. Excited to see what you do forge it into.
Thanks for your comment and nice feedback! 🙏🏻👍🏼
You guys gonna try and make some high carbon hearth steel? Or leave it as iron.
Here here i see all kinds going we made iron but never actually get to this part
👍for mum
Awesome to see you forge the iron you made! Hi Mum from Missouri USA! Thanks for sharing!
I have a lot of woodworking tools, but I’d love to do some blacksmithing from the ground up (literally), by using old techniques like you’ve shown. Great work, and thumbs up for mum!
Thanks Clifford; I really hope you get the chance to do so! :)
I'm simply amazed by the high quality and amount o iron you guys have produced. I've been looking for iron smelting videos for quite a while and you're the best i've seen so far
Thanks for your kind words Angelo; really appreciated :)
I always wants to make iron from sand, thank for making this video
And now I know I am not the only mad who wants to do that, what a relief
You guys have no idea how thankful i am for this video, its impossible to find such well documented bloom smelting on yt, thanks. That said the turn test was done at different temperatures so the results varied greatly
You're welcome, more videos to come. The next twist test will be done cold to also be able to see the grain structure.
Wow, I'm quite early.
Very interesting to see both the creating AND forging of the bloom!
Holy crap, your iron looks amazing. Seemingly very little work is required to make it look clean and regular. This puts ancient ironmaking in a totally different perspective. Certainly the real masters back then could've easily processed a thousand pounds of iron in a week, provided they had enough charcoal. A large bloom might weigh a hundred pounds, and a dozen assistants could probably refine all of it into usable bar iron in like a day, which could then be consolidated and reforged and turned into steel eventually.
I wonder if they had or even knew about Borax? Wouldn't work as well without it.
@@Roylamx it was used all thoughout history ever since iron was forged. it is found in dried up lakes.
@@Roylamx no to my knowledge, we don't have any of those kind of lakes in Denmark, fine quartz sand was used as flux. But if the bloom iron is of decent quality it contains enough slag to be self-fluxing. I have forge welded other pieces of the bloom with out borax or any other kind of flux, just with the slag present in the iron.
This bloom looks very good
This cool man. Cant wait to see the progress.
Thanks man!
When are you and the boys gonna build a full set of medieval plated armor?
We are cooking on making a chain mail - so stay tuned!
Very cool! Congratulations on the bloom!
You are doing a great job and I wish you a lot of success and fun!
Looking forward to your next adventures!
And, of course.... Hello to mom!
Thanks for following our adventure! See you around :)
I love this stuff, great work.
Thanks for watching Thaddeus!
Such impressive work! Lots of love.
Thanks my love!
great videos, thanks for sharing
You are welcome!
Such a nice job🙂
Thanks Naim, cheers! :)
now this is great.
Nice Video you’ve done a really great gob man🦾 This really would be Perfect for knives or Damast Steel
Yeah, thanks! My brother made a nice Damascus steel knife some time ago before I started recording for UA-cam videos :)
Very interesting! Greetings from Germany
It is very interesting. Greetings from Texas!
Oh I see it was a success when I saw the lump.
Wow
👍😀
is really cool!!!
if I had a million dollars I would just build a smelting plant right on that beach you guys found. this is very impressive, there is alot of iron in your ground eh
this video demonstrates very slowly how the rock actually looks like a rock until you started to hammer it together, its very impressive, television shows always cut out all the "pedantic" stuff because they assume the viewer doesn't want to see it, then the twist test, wooo :) very impressed
@@smc3453 Thanks for your awesome comment :) You are very much welcome here (also without a million dollars :D ) !
Thumbs up favorite mom.
Also I'm super surprised the bog iron twisted better than the magnetically purified material. perhaps an alloying agent rode along during the smelt?
Looking at it, the bog iron seemed to be hotter (yellow rather than a dull orange) and seemed to be given more room to twist
@@ObliteAbyss coming back to this because its neat to see and saw this, you seem to be spot on good eye buddy.
I love it😀
Its been 3yr since the smelt ... have you finished consolidating the rest of the bloom yet, and made anything with it ?
Nice med nogen spændene danskere 😘😘😘
Tak pomfrit! :)
For the lower grade iron, what will be done with it? Is there a way to refine it further, like maybe melt it into a crucible and scoop up any slag that floats up?
Planning to re-melt the iron from the bog ore, in a miniature furnace to try and get rid of some of the slag and the phosphorus. Probably making a video on it when we get around to have the spare time to do it.
@@jakobhalskovNiiiiiice! I'll keep an eye out for it. Take my subscribe sir! Good work!
I've always been aware that we have a lot of black sand at the danish beaches an ever sinde I became aware of the fact that it was magnetite I've been wondering how good it would be for iron refining and I'm happy to finally find a video that demonstrates it. I'm starting to thing that the availability of the ore is unique to Denmark and that might be why this is the first time I'm seeing a good demonstration of it. Thank you.
PS. Is this some educational project or just a free time hobby?
Thanks for your kind comment Ninjafox! This is just for the fun of it; a long running project for my brother Sebastian and I believe this was the third year in a row he tried and finally succeeded :) Let me know if you have any further questions :)
Nice job. I did not see that you folded the iron , did you?
Great content
His voice makes me question my sexuality too much, but other than that, 10/10 video
Haha thanks Alex, appreciate that! 🙏🏻
you should invest in a 7inch (177.8 mm/17.78 cm) angle grinder you can basically get bigger chunks to work with.
and you wont have to be so close to the work piece
Ideed, we hope to soon buy a bigger one :)
Like and comment, as your channel deserves more traction.
Wow, pretty nice results! I wonder if its possible to find this kind of sand here in Estonia ) Will you make more videos about bloom?
We will surely be making more videos continuing to work on the iron from the bloom.
Good videos dudes, also hey there momsy
Thanks Lucas!
It didnt break after seven turns because you have more distance than last time so it looks to me like both pieces were good quality and about the same.
Just saw the black sand video, was the yield of high quality like high carbon steel?
Yes, the quality is quite god nice dense with low slag content, low in phosphorus (around that is allowed in commercial steel), with a bit of titanium (0,025%) and aluminum (0,17%). Unfortunately I don't know the exact carbon content, but there is definitely some feels like a low to mid carbon steel.
Can anything be done to improve the quality of the black sand result comparable to the bog ore?
I believe it is mostly up to how much effort is put into sorting the magnetite (iron oxide) from the quartz parts of the sand. Maybe my brother Sebastian who knows more about this will add a comment. // Jakob
If it was further refined (more folds and forge welds) it would probably get an increase in ductility. An other reason why it broke sooner than the bog ore iron is that i think it contains more carbon that reduces ductility. Though i don't know if the small amount of carbon (
If it's iron sand and high carbon due to charcoal isn't it Carbon steel and not Pig iron?
God bless the algorithm
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Back again.
👋👋Hello Mum👍
Thaaanks :)
Hi mom! :D
Hej mor!
Would traditional blacksmiths have just spent hours with a saw making those smaller pieces?
No, they would have made smaller blooms and cut them with a axe or similar, hot from the Bloomery. No fun cutting them cold even when you got at large angle grinder.
-Sebastian
it was steel already
Hello mom. 👍
Your mom looks like a nice lady by the way :)
Hello mum 👍🏻
hi mum