Introduction This lab was focused on the process of making iron ship-nails and roves in the historical Anglo-Saxon tradition. Blacksmithing, in some form or another, has been used for millennia to shape raw metal into useful tools. In the viking age, a common use for blacksmithing was the creation of clench nails and roves. These…
Item for Forging Time (minutes) Number of Fires Temperature (°F) Nail A 52.12 29 860 Nail B ~46 20 988 Rove A ~20 4 862 Rove B ~25 3 902 One person each forged their own nail, with the remainder of the group feeding the fire and working the bellows. The same person made both…
Time Reheat Average Time Between Reheats Talia 27:50 26 Roughly one minute Hazel 55:19 25 roughly two minutes Sebass 41:01 18 roughly two minutes We also began to make a washer at the end of our time, but we created what was called “art”, in other words we got the tool stuck in the iron…
Person Type Time Heats Fire Temp Metal Temp (Red) Metal Temp Ezra Nail 35:05 18 900 C 420 C 250 C Sasha Nail 28:15 13 942 C 545 C 350 C Patrick Nail 36:30 20 930 C 504 C 230 C Sam Rove 20:15 6 900 C 520 C 260 C Sasha Rove 7:20 7…
Group Members Time (of day) Number/instance metal was taken out of fire for hitting with hammer and additional notes total time taken to make nail per group member Parker (1st) 2:15 pm–>2:17 pm–>2:19 pm–>2:21 pm–>2:22 pm–>2:24 pm–>2:27 pm–>2:29 pm–>2:33 pm–>2:36 pm–>2:38 pm–>2:40 pm–>2:41 pm–>2:43 pm–>2:45 pm–>2:46 pm–>2:47 pm–>2:48 pm–>2:49 pm–>2:50 pm–>2:51 pm–>2:52 pm–>2:53 pm–>2:54 pm–>2:55…
Nail # Number of heats to form a shoulder Number of heats to begin squaring Number of heats to fit through the hole Number of heats to begin cutting nail off of rod Number of heats to complete nail Total time (hours) 1st 5 7 22 25 29 1:15:47 2nd 7 9 (Time: 0:54:42) N/A…
Notes on nail and rove attributes: – Nails length needs to be long enough to get through two boards of wood, plus extra length to make the head and rivet– Roves should be about 1/8″ thick Smithing Data: Hardware type Blacksmith Time (when the rod was put in— hr:m:s) Heats Notes Deviations from one heat…