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