[Regia-NA] Ironworker

[Jeff mack]

There have been many tuyure stones found in Scandinavia.  They look like a flat rock, with a hole through it.  If I understand their use correctly, They are used to channel the air from a bellows sideways into the charcoal fuel.  Most of the reconstructions I've seen were basicly a clay lined hole in the ground, with a tuyure stone lining the hole on one side.  I used a washtub lined with clay to make my charcoal forge, so I could get it up of the ground, and not completely freak out my neighbors.

Hope that helps.

Sveinbjörn
 
Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid --
Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade.
"Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall,
"But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all.
-Kipling


----- Original Message ----
From: Joel Thompson <joelthompson1 at cox.net>
To: list-Regia-NA <list-regia-na at lig.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:31:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Ironworker


That's neat.  I haven't done or seen anyone doing smelting.   I'm really 
interested in building an above ground forge.  I'm a fairly new blacksmith 
myself.  I was reading an article on Regia mainsite that mentioned this 
shallow clay bowl idea.  It would work great for me since I'm an old guy 
with bad knees who doesn't want to have forge in the ground.  The clay bowl 
is easy, but I wonder about the air flow and how the bellows are worked. 
Does it come in from the side, underneath, What?

Joel


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicholson, Andrew" <andrew.nicholson at dumgal.gov.uk>
To: "'list-Regia-NA'" <list-regia-na at lig.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:57 AM
Subject: RE: [Regia-NA] Ironworker


>     Hello.  Anyone out there I can talk ironworking with?
>> I'm interested
>> in the idea of a forge using the shallow clay bowl, etc.
>> Thanks in advance for any info.
>>
>
> 'Fraid I've only done smelting rather than smithing - one knife blade 
> don't
> count for much - but then when I started it was just a rock ! :)
>
> Dug up Norse smithing and smelting debris though, and looked at tools.
>
> Guthrum
>
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