Thread: Lake Superior, Sand Smelted, Michi-gane Razor

Thanks for the post,the process sounds like a good time. I now have something to dream about.

Charlie

Originally Posted by spazola

Thanks for the post,the process sounds like a good time. I now have something to dream about.

Charlie

Charlie, come on up to "the land of perpetual winter". We'll melt some sand and have a good time. You're always welcome.

Tim Z.

Fantastic! I'm getting really into the steel side of things, and it's awesome to see someone take it to this level.

But maybe "Mihagane" sounds better...

Tim, thanks for sharing the process and the resulting razor. Absolutely stunning.

Oh wow. That is seriously cool stuff.

Very cool. I grew up very close to Lake Superior (less than 3.5 miles away as the crow flies) and spent many hours fishing on it with my Dad and swimming in it. It's in my bones. I love it. Thanks for sharing such a great razor from a master.

Chris L

Iron is iron the world over. Might be interesting to see what the spectrograph shows for minor alloying elements though.

What was your yield (bloom out/ore in)? How about slag production? Got any spark pictures of the billet against the wheel?

I'm just full of questions...

So much pride resinates from this razor, makes me feel proud just looking at the images. Great job.

Originally Posted by Mike Blue

Iron is iron the world over. Might be interesting to see what the spectrograph shows for minor alloying elements though.

What was your yield (bloom out/ore in)? How about slag production? Got any spark pictures of the billet against the wheel?

I'm just full of questions...

Mike, No spectrograph, but lots of micrographs. The hardened steel is martensite with excess cementite. our best guess is about 0.90% C.

We didn't filter the sand. So there was lots of silica sand mixed in. The sand was about 15% magnatite and 13% hematite, and the rest was mostly silica sand. 45 pounds of sand gave a solid 5 1/2 pound bloom that was very high carbon. With all that silica sand, we mad lots of very runny, magnetic slag. Just for fun, I'm going to try a slag smelt later this winter.

I didn't take any spark pictures. the bloom and finished bar had plenty of carbon. There was no excess ferrite in the hardened steel.

I'm doing a smelt next week... so many things to try. I'm playing with sorting the sand as well. But it is fun to take it right off the beach and run it through the smelter.

Tim Z.

Originally Posted by Tim Zowada

Mike, No spectrograph, but lots of micrographs. The hardened steel is martensite with excess cementite. our best guess is about 0.90% C.

We didn't filter the sand. So there was lots of silica sand mixed in. The sand was about 15% magnatite and 13% hematite, and the rest was mostly silica sand. 45 pounds of sand gave a solid 5 1/2 pound bloom that was very high carbon. With all that silica sand, we mad lots of very runny, magnetic slag. Just for fun, I'm going to try a slag smelt later this winter.

I didn't take any spark pictures. the bloom and finished bar had plenty of carbon. There was no excess ferrite in the hardened steel.

I'm doing a smelt next week... so many things to try. I'm playing with sorting the sand as well. But it is fun to take it right off the beach and run it through the smelter.

Tim Z.

Cool cool, thanks for that. It's all about the fun.

Mike