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Jens Nordlunde · 4th April 2006, 01:18 PM

Hi all, sorry for my absence.

Thank you for the answers witch I find very interesting. As the one who knows little about the subject, I have an additional question.

From the answers you have written I understand, that the bigger the ingots were the more difficult it was to make them. As far as I know the ingots varied in size from a few hundred grams to about 3 kg, but most were made for making two sword blades out of an ingot. If the big ingots were so difficult to make, why did they not make the small ones only? Is it possible to forge left over from two different ingots together and get a good result? How close it the wooz pattern in the ingots made in the same furnace?

4th April 2006, 01:18 PM	#8
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,713	Hi all, sorry for my absence. Thank you for the answers witch I find very interesting. As the one who knows little about the subject, I have an additional question. From the answers you have written I understand, that the bigger the ingots were the more difficult it was to make them. As far as I know the ingots varied in size from a few hundred grams to about 3 kg, but most were made for making two sword blades out of an ingot. If the big ingots were so difficult to make, why did they not make the small ones only? Is it possible to forge left over from two different ingots together and get a good result? How close it the wooz pattern in the ingots made in the same furnace? Last edited by Jens Nordlunde; 4th April 2006 at 02:36 PM.