Hammered Out Bits

Darrell Markewitz is a professional blacksmith who specializes in the Viking Age. He designed the living History program for L'Anse aux Meadows NHSC (Parks Canada) and worked on a number of major international exhibits. A recent passion is experimental iron smelting. 'Hammered Out Bits' focuses primarily on IRON and the VIKING AGE

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Viking Ships at Roskilde

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(Repeated from the DARC blog ) Today is smelter prep / workshop day for DARC, against our upcoming spring smelt on June 14. So I wanted to g...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Norse Welding Flux?

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As you may have seen, I started Hammered Out Bits mainly as a means to record and share the longer e-mail responses I was sending out almost...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

DeMystifying Layered Steels

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Josh wrote: " Can you turn me on to some information regarding techniques I need to start forging layered blades. ... What {alloys} do ...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

'Espelund' Two Stage Process - Overview

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(The following is converted from a posting to EARLY IRON) Skip Williams wrote: Espelund has had the idea for several years that his 'dus...
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