I've seen dozens of Iron bloom smelts, but this has got to be the first time I've seen someone take it and forge it out. Excited to see what you do forge it into.

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment and nice feedback! 🙏🏻👍🏼

@Jeremiahhamilton1st

3 жыл бұрын

You guys gonna try and make some high carbon hearth steel? Or leave it as iron.

@samellowery

10 ай бұрын

Here here i see all kinds going we made iron but never actually get to this part

👍for mum

Awesome to see you forge the iron you made! Hi Mum from Missouri USA! Thanks for sharing!

I have a lot of woodworking tools, but I’d love to do some blacksmithing from the ground up (literally), by using old techniques like you’ve shown. Great work, and thumbs up for mum!

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Clifford; I really hope you get the chance to do so! :)

I'm simply amazed by the high quality and amount o iron you guys have produced. I've been looking for iron smelting videos for quite a while and you're the best i've seen so far

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind words Angelo; really appreciated :)

I always wants to make iron from sand, thank for making this video And now I know I am not the only mad who wants to do that, what a relief

Wow, I'm quite early. Very interesting to see both the creating AND forging of the bloom!

You guys have no idea how thankful i am for this video, its impossible to find such well documented bloom smelting on yt, thanks. That said the turn test was done at different temperatures so the results varied greatly

@jakobhalskov

10 ай бұрын

You're welcome, more videos to come. The next twist test will be done cold to also be able to see the grain structure.

Holy crap, your iron looks amazing. Seemingly very little work is required to make it look clean and regular. This puts ancient ironmaking in a totally different perspective. Certainly the real masters back then could've easily processed a thousand pounds of iron in a week, provided they had enough charcoal. A large bloom might weigh a hundred pounds, and a dozen assistants could probably refine all of it into usable bar iron in like a day, which could then be consolidated and reforged and turned into steel eventually.

@Roylamx

8 ай бұрын

I wonder if they had or even knew about Borax? Wouldn't work as well without it.

@anonymous-mj8wb

8 ай бұрын

@@Roylamx it was used all thoughout history ever since iron was forged. it is found in dried up lakes.

@SebastianHalskov

8 ай бұрын

@@Roylamx no to my knowledge, we don't have any of those kind of lakes in Denmark, fine quartz sand was used as flux. But if the bloom iron is of decent quality it contains enough slag to be self-fluxing. I have forge welded other pieces of the bloom with out borax or any other kind of flux, just with the slag present in the iron.

This is so satisfying this channel is underrated

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind comment! :)

When are you and the boys gonna build a full set of medieval plated armor?

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

We are cooking on making a chain mail - so stay tuned!

Very cool! Congratulations on the bloom! You are doing a great job and I wish you a lot of success and fun! Looking forward to your next adventures! And, of course.... Hello to mom!

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for following our adventure! See you around :)

now this is great.

Oh I see it was a success when I saw the lump.

This cool man. Cant wait to see the progress.

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

I love this stuff, great work.

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Thaddeus!

Such impressive work! Lots of love.

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks my love!

great videos, thanks for sharing

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Such a nice job🙂

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Naim, cheers! :)

Very interesting! Greetings from Germany

@satchelhamilton8631

3 жыл бұрын

It is very interesting. Greetings from Texas!

is really cool!!!

Wow 👍😀

Nice Video you’ve done a really great gob man🦾 This really would be Perfect for knives or Damast Steel

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, thanks! My brother made a nice Damascus steel knife some time ago before I started recording for KZread videos :)

I love it😀

Great content His voice makes me question my sexuality too much, but other than that, 10/10 video

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks Alex, appreciate that! 🙏🏻

if I had a million dollars I would just build a smelting plant right on that beach you guys found. this is very impressive, there is alot of iron in your ground eh

@smc3453

2 жыл бұрын

this video demonstrates very slowly how the rock actually looks like a rock until you started to hammer it together, its very impressive, television shows always cut out all the "pedantic" stuff because they assume the viewer doesn't want to see it, then the twist test, wooo :) very impressed

@jakobhalskov

2 жыл бұрын

@@smc3453 Thanks for your awesome comment :) You are very much welcome here (also without a million dollars :D ) !

God bless the algorithm

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for swinging by!

Back again.

Thumbs up favorite mom. Also I'm super surprised the bog iron twisted better than the magnetically purified material. perhaps an alloying agent rode along during the smelt?

@ObliteAbyss

8 ай бұрын

Looking at it, the bog iron seemed to be hotter (yellow rather than a dull orange) and seemed to be given more room to twist

Nice job. I did not see that you folded the iron , did you?

Like and comment, as your channel deserves more traction.

Its been 3yr since the smelt ... have you finished consolidating the rest of the bloom yet, and made anything with it ?

I've always been aware that we have a lot of black sand at the danish beaches an ever sinde I became aware of the fact that it was magnetite I've been wondering how good it would be for iron refining and I'm happy to finally find a video that demonstrates it. I'm starting to thing that the availability of the ore is unique to Denmark and that might be why this is the first time I'm seeing a good demonstration of it. Thank you. PS. Is this some educational project or just a free time hobby?

@jakobhalskov

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind comment Ninjafox! This is just for the fun of it; a long running project for my brother Sebastian and I believe this was the third year in a row he tried and finally succeeded :) Let me know if you have any further questions :)

Wow, pretty nice results! I wonder if its possible to find this kind of sand here in Estonia ) Will you make more videos about bloom?

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

We will surely be making more videos continuing to work on the iron from the bloom.

Good videos dudes, also hey there momsy

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lucas!

It didnt break after seven turns because you have more distance than last time so it looks to me like both pieces were good quality and about the same.

Nice med nogen spændene danskere 😘😘😘

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Tak pomfrit! :)

you should invest in a 7inch (177.8 mm/17.78 cm) angle grinder you can basically get bigger chunks to work with. and you wont have to be so close to the work piece

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Ideed, we hope to soon buy a bigger one :)

Just saw the black sand video, was the yield of high quality like high carbon steel?

@jakobhalskov

11 ай бұрын

Yes, the quality is quite god nice dense with low slag content, low in phosphorus (around that is allowed in commercial steel), with a bit of titanium (0,025%) and aluminum (0,17%). Unfortunately I don't know the exact carbon content, but there is definitely some feels like a low to mid carbon steel.

For the lower grade iron, what will be done with it? Is there a way to refine it further, like maybe melt it into a crucible and scoop up any slag that floats up?

@jakobhalskov

8 ай бұрын

Planning to re-melt the iron from the bog ore, in a miniature furnace to try and get rid of some of the slag and the phosphorus. Probably making a video on it when we get around to have the spare time to do it.

@MaitlandJones

8 ай бұрын

@@jakobhalskovNiiiiiice! I'll keep an eye out for it. Take my subscribe sir! Good work!

Hi mom! :D

Can anything be done to improve the quality of the black sand result comparable to the bog ore?

@jakobhalskov

2 жыл бұрын

I believe it is mostly up to how much effort is put into sorting the magnetite (iron oxide) from the quartz parts of the sand. Maybe my brother Sebastian who knows more about this will add a comment. // Jakob

@jakobhalskov

2 жыл бұрын

If it was further refined (more folds and forge welds) it would probably get an increase in ductility. An other reason why it broke sooner than the bog ore iron is that i think it contains more carbon that reduces ductility. Though i don't know if the small amount of carbon (

Hej mor!

👋👋Hello Mum👍

@jakobhalskov

3 жыл бұрын

Thaaanks :)

Your mom looks like a nice lady by the way :)

Hello mom. 👍

it was steel already

Would traditional blacksmiths have just spent hours with a saw making those smaller pieces?

@jakobhalskov

7 ай бұрын

No, they would have made smaller blooms and cut them with a axe or similar, hot from the Bloomery. No fun cutting them cold even when you got at large angle grinder. -Sebastian

Hello mum 👍🏻

hi mum