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It's a GSW (General Steel Wares), a well-known Canadian brand from back in the day. I've never looked into dating it exactly, but it was probably made somewhere between 1940 and 1965. They're pretty...

The pan was not really useable in the condition it was in. The bottom smoked constantly! So it needed to be completely stripped to raw cast iron and reseasoned. Even though it took time, it was not...

Here's my first cast iron restoration. I decided to do the same thing to our No. 8 skillet, which we've had for a few years and had a buildup of gunk on the outside. I decided against the lye bath...

Because of the smoke I'm guessing it's caked on crud, but it wasn't coming off very easily. I'll look for that post about the lye soak.

My girlfriend came home with a new old cast iron skillet yesterday (we'd been looking for a larger one for a long time). It looked to be in great shape, but as I as seasoning it today, the bottom...