Making of weapons - forge welded steel
smelting
- Raw materials for the smelting: charcoal, softwelded iron, iron ore
- smelting; hand bellows joint with smelting furnace
- smelted steel
- left a piece of steel right another piece of steel ready for packet
the cleaning of the steel via forging
- the packet from 5 pieces of steel with clag before the welding
- the packet after the welding. There are still many cracks and pieces of slags
- the foursection of the packet
- The packet before next welding. This proces of cleaning is repeated 4-8× then is the steel clean
- Welded steel
- Welded steel on the edge of pattern - welded sword
- sandwich blade
- Lines of welding on the sandwich blade
- Wood structure
- Wood structure of welded steel on the blade of katana sword
autor: Patrick Bárta (templ@templ.net)