What do you do, when someone posts something cool on facebook? Normally, my attitude is that facebook is just terminally uncool and nothing on it deserves to be linked here.
But this is pretty neat. The DesRosiers are a nutty couple of bladesmiths who do gorgeous work and live somewhere up in off the grid bumfuck. A couple of years ago their shop burned down, and they got back in production and got back to making gorgeous knives.
One of their anvils lost its temper in the fire, so they re-quenched it. In case you’ve ever wondered how this is done.
Or maybe it’s not not it’s normally done. Since the instances == 1, I don’t know if this rises to the level of “tradition” or not.
Fortunately or not, I see absolutely no links or images on this post at all.
I’m running Safari on iOS.
I think the traditional European way was to quench it in the the blood of witches.
Bruce, try this:
https://www.facebook.com/alaskablades/videos/359857011453157/
moarscienceplz@#2:
I think the traditional European way was to quench it in the the blood of witches.
Or drop it on one’s foot. But no good comes of that.
How does an anvil lose its temper in a fire? Do anvils storm around and use a lot of profanity when they lose their temper, or do they grit their teeth and speak in a whisper, or is it just kind of low-key grumpiness?
I guess the end of the chain gets quenched as well.
Reginald Selkirk@#6:
The chain would be low carbon (“mild”) steel – you don’t want hardened chain links shattering under load.
I was waiting for some boiled fish to surface. No bonus dinner this time.
moarscienceplz @ 2
“I think the traditional European way was to quench it in the the blood of witches.”
I read that the Scottish method was to Cool it with a baboon’s blood, though where you’d find a baboon near Brodie Castle is not explained…