forgeblast
Elite Member
You can use charcoal it works fine, Just does not last as lone as coal. Even hard wood can be used. I have an old hand cranked forge, but a bellows or most anything to blow air is fine.
For flux plain old "Borax" will work fine. Boric acid crystals may work better, but have never tried them.
Fully agree. I have a big container of Borax it works great. Hardwood charcoal...when one of my buddies who is a professional smith (makes functional armor from vikings and romans) was low on $$ for coal, he would take all the charcoal lumps from any cookouts we would have.
I heard also with the tattle dont use a knife to open them otherwise you can damage the seal.
We made pemmican (or something like it) when I was working at a middle school and we had a unit on louis and clark. They make and burried supplies to see what they would look like by the end of the year. It was a great hands on unit.
For flux plain old "Borax" will work fine. Boric acid crystals may work better, but have never tried them.
Fully agree. I have a big container of Borax it works great. Hardwood charcoal...when one of my buddies who is a professional smith (makes functional armor from vikings and romans) was low on $$ for coal, he would take all the charcoal lumps from any cookouts we would have.
I heard also with the tattle dont use a knife to open them otherwise you can damage the seal.
We made pemmican (or something like it) when I was working at a middle school and we had a unit on louis and clark. They make and burried supplies to see what they would look like by the end of the year. It was a great hands on unit.