{"id":3529,"date":"2022-02-14T01:12:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T01:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2022-02-14T01:13:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T01:13:31","slug":"bloom-iron-refinement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/14\/bloom-iron-refinement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloom iron refinement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Spent the good part of an afternoon refining bloom iron. Its a long process of forging folding and welding. The included pictures are of the beginning stages. This iron is some from 2 smelts ago. In essence that smelt was a failure but it did yield a thin bloom, about the diameter of a volleyball. The bloom was cut in half and the other half was worked the previous evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n