An Index of Past BLOG Postings for :

Hammered Out Bits
http://warehamforgeblog.blogspot.com

" Darrell Markewitz is a professional blacksmith who specializes in the Viking Age. He designed the living History program for L'Anse aux Meadows and has worked on a number of major international exhibits. Recent passions have included experimental iron smelting."

The primary content to the BLOG are short pieces related to metalwork and the Viking Age. There is a concentration of articles related to the ongoing IRON SMELTING experiments. Many posts relate to the technical aspects of forging objects from the Viking Age. Of course there are some general commentaries on the Arts, and the world in general.

I consider the main web site to be like a published book, the blog to be more like a magazine. I normally try to post a new piece roughly twice every week - and this blog has been active since March of 2006. Many of the offerings are re-worked versions of long answers to e-mails or pieces for one of the several discussion groups I am active in. Note that this list just gives the article titles and the dates posted. Readers are advised to go to the blog itself use the listed topic key words or the 'search this blog' function provided by Blogger to find specific subjects.


Revised infrequently

New Postings roughly once a week - this index revised only quarterly (at best!)
Listed with most recent additions to the top

2012 COURSES - dates set
2/9/12

2012 Lectures - Schedule
2/7/12

Log Splitter to Hydraulic Press
2/6/12

DARC to LAM - July 2012
1/24/12

(late) Medieval Images of Blacksmiths
1/19/12

Revising the Web Site
1/17/12

EXARC journal article!
1/15/12

Winter Work...
1/8/12

Composing an F&Q
1/5/12



Peterson House - Front Supports : INSTALLED
12/24/11

Remember this?
12/22/11

Schiffer Releases Ironwork Today 3
12/18/11

CanIRON 9 - Quebec
12/13/11

Russian VA Iron Smelt...
12/12/11

A Historic Tool ??
12/10/11

Gamer's View on Metals, Armour & Weapons
12/4/11

Yule Sale!
12/3/11

What is True - or what they want?
11/30/11

Forging the BIG Time (again!)
11/26/11

Where DO Ideas Come From (3) - Peterson House
11/26/11

Bill Short on VIking Age Weapons & Combat
11/25/11

Archaeology & Experiment - Smelt at Brown University
11/24/11

the Work and Mind of Jake Powning
11/19/11

Found on the Beach ....
11/18/11

why OCCUPY?
11/13/11

Sauder on SMELTING
11/12/11

Afghanistan ... and Viet Nam
11/11/11

Slag Pit Two - Report Ready
11/9/11

'It came from the PIT'...
11/7/11

Slag Pit Two Celtic
11/5/11

Stone Age to Iron Age?
11/2/11

Slag Pit Smelt - Report ready!
11/1/11

Happy Halloween
10/31/11

DARC at CanIRON 8 - Smelt Report
10/29/11

Measuring the HEAT...
10/24/11

Thanksgiving Smelt - fast overview
10/21/11

Styll 2 - bragging a wee bit... contemporary arts, upcoming events
10/8/11

Thanksgiving IRON SMELT at Wareham
10/1/11

VA Glass Bead Experiment 9/10/11
10/1/11

OUT OF THE STORM - Fundraiser for Goderich
9/30/11

Truth for those who dream...
9/28/11

Dr Wallace at Western!
9/27/11

Stonekettle on Intelligent Aliens and the State Fair
9/26/11

Charcoal in Furnaces?
9/21/11

Styll 2- Two, B
9/16/11

Styll 2 - Two
9/14/11

Cooking and Cookware References?
9/10/11

View of CanIRON 8
9/8/11

DARC smelt at CanIRON 8
9/6/11

Report from Goderich!
8/26/11

'New' at Kensington Minnesota...
8/26/11

Wind Power comes to Wareham
8/20/11

See me at : SUMMERFOLK - Owen Sound
8/18/11

Art imitates Science (??)
8/17/11

Introduction to LAYERED STEELS - October 22 & 23
8/16/11

Bead Making at Goderich Celtic (report)
8/13/11

Seeing CanIRON 8 ??
8/10/11

Viking Age Bead Making - at Goderich Celtic
8/3/11

CanIRON 8 - Consider a single day admission
7/28/11

DARC at CanIRON 8 - Iron Smelting Demo
7/27/11

CanIRON 8 : Come see - What is FREE !
7/25/11

Halluciginia No. 3 - Crab (more)
7/24/11

Out of the Womb - Endlessly Orbitting (???)
7/23/11

'Crab' - Designing to Forged Elements
7/19/11

Viking Age in TORONTO - this weekend!
13/11

Smelting and Weather?
7/10/11

Axe forging - the video
7/6/11

Historic Iron Smelt in Sweden
7/5/11

Viking Age in Ottawa for Canada Day
6/29/11

Recent Work
6/27/11

June 11 Smelt - REPORT
6/27/11

Iron Smelt at CanIRON 8
6/20/11

CanIRON practice smelt
6/19/11

De-Bunking the Kensington Rune Stone ...
6/7/11

Early Blacksmith
6/6/11

Demonstration IRON SMELT : June 11
6/1/11

Great Northern Medieval Fayre
5/27/11

a new take on Debt Slavery
5/24/11

Will YOU be 'Raptured'...
5/21/11

How Hot?
5/17/11

Etching on Celtic Iron Age Mirrors?
5/11/11

Peterson Fence - Installed
5/5/11

A 'Learning Experience'...
4/29/11

a MEDIEVAL Double Bag Bellows
4/16/11

'Off Cut Bowl' - Waterlife / Shadow Box show
4/11/11

'Steel' strikers - some considerations (?)
4/9/11

Final Report - African passive draw furnace
4/6/11

Aristotle Furnace - Photo Essay
4/4/11

OUT of 'Africa'
4/1/11

'Harper Government' falls...
3/28/11

Heat under AFRICA
3/25/11

SMELTFEST 11 - African part 2
3/22/11

SMELTFEST 11 - initial doings
3/20/11

Ancient Bronze working?
3/14/11

I Am (Not Stephen Harper's) Canadian
3/8/11

Peterson Fence Project
3/6/11

Some older Bladesmithing
2/28/11

Vikings to Vinland - Lecture Feb 24
2/20/11

HOW TO HISTORY - Norse Broadaxe
2/16/11

Contemporary Blacksmithing in Uzbekistan
2/11/11

Art of Scott Caple
2/6/11

Bronze Casting - Metals, Melts and other Mysteries...
2/4/11

'Songs of Distant Oceans'
2/3/11

Cooking Grid from Fire Grid
2/1/11

NEW DVD Edits!
1/31/11

NEW DVD Edits!
1/31/11

I wanted this AXE
1/25/11

2011 - Year at a Glance
1/22/11

QUALITY Replica Anvils (VA iron & economy)
1/20/11

Makita Comes Through
1/15/11

'Proof' (??) of Female Blacksmiths
1/12/11

How To History
1/9/11

Museum Photographs - Internet Publishing
1/5/11


Interpreting an Artifact
12/31/10

Revisions to the 'Norse Encampment'
12/28/10

Log Rack - a tale of Client interface & Pricing
12/25/10

History as Music Video
12/21/10

Inuit meets Norse
12/18/10

(Oversized) Oseberg Tripod Replica
12/12/10

A Public Service Announcement ...
12/8/10

What its NOT -
12/7/10

Piles of JUNK paper!
12/6/10

Bit of a Facelift...
12/5/10

Reality and YouTube
12/3/10

Shape of Forges in Early History
12/2/10

Jeff Pringle on Viking Age Axes
12/1/10

Forging a Norse Cook Pot
11/24/10

'Christmas in the Country' Demo
11/23/10

Econo Norse for CanIRON 8 - VIDEO
11/17/10

'Point to the Wind' blacksmith,
11/15/10

Sing a long on Remembrance Day
11/11/10

Additions to Nov 6 Smelt
11/8/10

Econo Norse for CanIRON 8
11/7/10

Revised TIMETABLE for CanIRON 8
11/4/10

Norse Axe Making Tutorial
11/2/10

Buildings are Mega - Projects...
10/29/10

Sexing Skeletons
10/25/10

Female Smiths in the Viking Age?
10/23/10

When is a coin - not a Viking coin from Rode Island?
10/22/10

'Forest Floor' - Reade & Maxwell
10/18/10

Realistic Yields for Bloomery Furnaces
10/13/10

the Aristotle Furnace
10/10/10

Maybe its all in the Presentation?
10/6/10

Ground Fires vs Containments - History vs Modern
10/2/10

Kool at Quad State
9/28/10

IRON IN NEW YORK
9/22/10

Atlantic Realm 3 - Kelp on Stone
9/18/10

Canada Post " Helps " Small Business ???
9/14/10

Styll Squared - 'Where do Ideas come from' (2)
9/10/10

"You're THAT guy!"
9/8/10

Smelting in VINLAND
9/5/10

Images of Vinland
9/4/10

Iron at Heltborg
9/2/10

Vinland Iron Smelt - a Reporter's View
9/1/10

Oatmeal Sealling an IRON Cookpot
8/10/10

Out of touch in AUGUST
8/1/10

Maile from Bloom Iron?
7/28/10

DARC at LAM - 2010
7/22/10

(old) Computers to Kwartzlab
7/21/10

IRON Norse Cook Pot
7/18/10

Reade/Maxwell - Trees and Sky
7/9/10

Mini-Lithic at Wareham
7/8/10

HST - Nothing but a RIP OFF
7/1/10

Currency Bar from DARC Iron
6/26/10

Vinland 4 - Full report available
6/24/10

Vinland 4 Smelt - Draft Report
6/21/10

Working Meteor Iron?
6/20/10

Poles for A frame Tents
6/14/10

Vinland at Wareham
6/10/10

Kats...
6/8/10

Horse shit - not Bull shit?
6/8/10

'Trees' Panel Completed
6/1/10

Bellows Stone in early forges
5/31/10

an Anglo Saxon Forge (?)
5/30/10

Layered vs Pattern Weld / Forge vs Foundry
5/28/10

Visiting the 1800's
5/26/10

DARC - June 12 Presentation : Press Release
5/16/10

a Pattern Welded Heavy Camp Knife
5/12/10

Layered Steels (3) - on Materials
5/4/10

More on Pattern Welding - what and why?
5/1/10

Re-Inventing Layered Steels
4/30/10

No - I don't make 'props'
4/28/10

'Trees' for Reade & Maxwell Residence
4/24/10

Some Layered Steel Billets
4/16/10

Icelandic (?) Pattern Loom for Vinland (2)
4/15/10

Computer Woes = Communications Restricted
4/8/10

Icelandic (?) Pattern Loom for Vinland
4/6/10

Muppets go a-Viking
4/2/10

Tripods in the Viking Age - again
3/31/10

Added to Forward Into the Past
3/25/10

Classes at Forward Into the Past
3/21/10

Fur Trade Replicas
3/20/10

SMELTFEST - What I'm missing
3/11/10

'Knife? THATS not a Knife...'
3/4/10

Geek 'Baba O'Reily'
2/25/10

Considering the Evenstad Furnace
2/14/10

Spreading 'the Fire'
2/12/10

BASSOON - Baba O'Riley
2/9/10

Concerning the shape of blooms:
2/9/10

Smelting with Sven & Yorgi
2/5/10

On the Economics of making Charcoal
1/30/10

On Fires, Colours and Fuels
1/29/10

I'm not REALLY a Viking....
1/27/10

Proof of other suffering - at least in spirit
1/25/10

Writer or Artisan?
1/24/10

Be serious - or don't waste my time!
1/21/10

Richards House Railing - Completed!
1/18/10

2010 Year Event Schedule
1/16/10

I was a Celt...
1/13/10

2010 Courses in Metalsmithing
1/12/10

Prorogue Parliament - Let's not come to work
1/8/10

Vinland 3 Smelt - Report Available
1/3/10

Be serious - or don't waste my time!
1/21/10

Richards House Railing - Completed!
1/18/10

2010 Year Event Schedule
1/16/10

I was a Celt...
1/13/10

2010 Courses in Metalsmithing
1/12/10

Prorogue Parliament - Let's not come to work
1/8/10

Vinland 3 Smelt - Report Available
1/3/10



AVATAR (yet another) Review
12/31/09

Vinland 2 Smelt - Report Available
12/30/09

Modern Iron Smelting
12/29/09

Spreading Flat Bar
12/28/09

Vinland 2 Smelt - Report Available
12/30/09

Modern Iron Smelting
12/29/09

Spreading Flat Bar
12/28/09

2009 'Vinland' Smelt Reports
12/27/09

Far From Home - but not Forgotten
12/26/09

'Does anyone here remember - Roger Dean?'
12/21/09

Richards House Railing One
12/20/09

*Iron* Age vs *Viking* Age? 12/15/09

Objects - Authenticity Levels?
12/12/09

Vinland Smelt - Matching the Evidence
12/7/09

A 'New Age Fake Mystic Cash Cow' Design
12/4/09

Finding Primary Bog Ore?
11/28/09

'Christmas in the Country'
11/27/09

Don't look like much...
11/26/09

Where do IDEAS come from?
11/19/09

CANIRON 8 - Comes to Ontario!
11/17/09

Vinland 3 on YouTube
11/16/09

the Everyday as Artifact - 'Motel of the Mysteries
11/14/09

On "the Guns of 24/7"
11/11/09

Vinland 3 Smelt - Draft Report
11/9/09

Undersea to Shore
11/3/09

Vinland 3 Smelter Build
11/3/09

On forges, chimneys - and blowers
11/1/09

Spears for Vinland
10/27/09

Clay at L'Anse aux Meadows?
10/25/09

A Furnace at Vinland - Construction Possibilities
10/22/09

Welding at low temperatures?
10/19/09

On Larger Charcoal Fires?
10/18/09

Smithing Tool Auction
10/15/09

Vinland 2 Smelt - On YouTube
10/14/09

Vinland Smelt 2 - Fast Results
10/12/09

Piston Bellows (1)
10/6/09

Junk Science...
10/4/09

So - You want to join DARC
10/2/09

Now from China...
9/30/09

Norse and Anglo-Saxon Knives - grind profiles
9/22/09

Shifting Shapes
9/16/09

Forging Norse Arrow Heads - Two
9/10/09

Forging Norse Arrow Heads - Details
9/9/09

Forging Norse Arrow Heads
9/9/09

Trade Like the Norse - Coins and Currency at the Althing
9/3/09

...and now for something COMPLETELY different!
8/29/09

On : "Viking garb accessories..belt and pouch?"
8/29/09

Snatched from the Fire?
8/27/09

'That don't look like the drawing!'
8/25/09

Catherine Crowe Launches Enamel Supplies
8/22/09

I had this knife...
8/18/09

A Viking Age pot to...
8/13/09

Ideas? Forms from Nature
7/31/09

" I love it when a plan comes together...
7/29/09

..but can you DRAW it?
7/23/09

IRON Mandrils - Iron Oxide bead release?
7/22/09

Working / Temperatures - VA Bead Furnace
7/20/09

Beadmaking - Working with Tesseri
7/19/09

Bead Furnace - Gas Jet 3
7/11/09

CANIRON 7
7/10/09

Glass Bead Making Furnace
7/6/09

Canada Day Beaver
7/1/09

Cold Forming Reversal Curves - on YouTube
6/25/09

Free Guide : 'The Art of Managing Your Career'
6/20/09

"If only I could BOTTLE it..."
6/19/09

What Six Hours gets you...
6/16/09

Forging Elements - Tools for Rushes
6/15/09

Forging Elements - 'Rush Tip'
6/11/09

Boats, Bilges - and Blisters
6/9/09

65 Years On...
6/7/09

Cutting the Bloom
6/6/09

Input - Output : LAM One Smelt
6/5/09

Meltalworking Safety for the Viking Age?
6/2/09

Vinland Iron Smelt (on YouTube)
6/1/09

Results - LAM 1 Smelt (draft)
5/31/09

Vikings came first...
5/29/09

LAM 'Furnce Hut' Photographs
5/29/09

A Furnace for Vinland
5/28/09

Norse in Northern Canada
5/28/09

John Little - Inflating Sheet
5/26/09

'Quenched in the body of a Slave...'
5/18/09

Jake Powning - VA Pattern Welded Sword
5/12/09

HEAVY Forging!
5/8/09

A Weekend Course - 'What will I get out of it?'
5/7/09

L'Anse aux Meadows Smelt - Working Area
5/5/09

L'Anse aux Meadows Smelt - Ore Analog
5/4/09

Who were the Vikings? Some basic Q & A
4/30/09

History (versus or plus?) Archaeology
4/27/09

Forging Elements - 'Kelp'
4/24/09

Winter Weathering - Icelandic Destruction!
4/14/09

Layout of the Wareham Forge
4/11/09

Viking Age Tents - Oseberg evidence
4/9/09

'Bridges & Doors'
4/6/09

Lectures on Saturday!
4/3/09

Ancient Iron Working Discovered...
4/3/09

Smeltfest 09 - Preliminary Overview
3/30/09

Forging the BIG time
3/25/09

Traveling with Marine Mammals
3/11/09

No - I really DID mean to do it that way...
3/4/09

more on ULFBERHT...
3/3/09

Lectures - Forward Into the Past
3/3/09

'ULFLBERHT' - or not (a test method)
3/2/09

Ves*sels Exhibit at BMFA
2/28/09

Folly at the Forge
2/26/09

Charcoals for Smelting
2/24/09

'Viking Encampment - 2008
2/19/09

'A' Frame Tent Covers...
2/15/09

Thule versus Norse?
2/15/09

2009 - Year at a Glance
2/12/09

Shrinking into Curves
2/12/09

Tools and Measures (and legondary tales)
2/11/09

Bronze Casting in Green Sand
2/9/09

'Continuing Adventures in Early Iron'
2/7/09

All 39 Smelts Linked to Reports
2/5/09

Experiment Data : 2001 - 2008
2/3/09

'Will you take an Apprentice?'
1/28/09

A known Meteor Iron Blade - from 1600!
1/27/09

Charcoal to Bar in Colonial Furnaces
1/22/09

2009 Course Dates Posted
1/21/09

From Mars to the Viking Age...
1/19/09

Graham House - Front Door 'Grill'
1/17/09

Revision with 2008 Smelting Overview
1/16/09

Squidoo - 'lens' on the Econo Norse Smelter
1/13/09

Tentative Course Dates - 2009
1/10/09

Applied Knowledge - Quenching
1/9/09

Weapons VS Armour - an Ancient story...
1/8/09

Images of Quad State Smelting Demo
1/6/09

Terry Clark - Masters Class / Folly at the Forge
12/31/08

'Steel' - means what?
12/27/08

DARC Fall Smelt on YouTube
12/27/08

Knives from VA Lejre, Denmark
12/25/08

Blacksmithing Skills in the Viking Age
12/23/08

Pattern Welding on VA Swords
12/22/08

Blade Construction in the Viking Age - PROBLEMS
12/21/08

'Exploring the Viking Age in Demark' - OFFICIAL RELEASE
12/20/08

Current Project - Graham House Front Door
12/19/08

Eastern Ontario Artist?
12/17/08

Icelandic A - 10/08 - VIDEO
12/16/08

Hinge Straps for TenCate House
12/11/08

Exploring the Vikings - Student Questions (Answered?)
12/9/08

Facing FACEBOOK
12/6/08

Our Home and Native Land?
12/5/08

The more it changes...
12/5/08

Ongoing - 'Exploring Viking Age Denmark'
11/28/08

Exploring the Viking Age in Demark
11/20/08

Looks Great...
11/18/08

Iron Slags as Art
11/17/08

Air Delivery Test - Norse Smelting Bellows
11/14/08

And the Band Played...
11/12/08


Gazing in the Crystal Ball
11/12/08

'For Our Honoured Dead'
11/11/08

Icelandic 4 Iron Smelt
11/10/08

Segmented Urn
11/7/08

Full Reports on Wareham Ironsmelting
11/6/08

Lest We Forget...
11/4/08

DARC Fall Smelt
10/31/08

GRAVE GOODS - Closing GALA
10/22/08

Medieval Cast Iron?
10/19/08

...and now for something completely different
10/18/08

Icelandic / Hals - VIDEO
10/15/08

Work Test A - Icelandic / Hals
10/15/08

VOTE for ARTS - who says what
10/14/08

Bloom to Object - 'Layered Test Seax'
10/8/08

Thanksgiving / Hals setup
10/7/08

Thanksgiving at Hals in Wareham (1)
10/5/08

VOTE for the ARTS
10/3/08

Grave Goods - Pictorial Overview
10/3/08

Iron Smelt Demo on ANVILFIRE
10/2/08

Iron Smelt Demo at Quad State
10/1/08

Ore Sources?
9/22/08

Forged from Blooms - 'Offering Bowl'
9/21/08

Insurance, Authorities and the Home Forge blacksmith
9/14/08

21st Cee - Clootie Tree
9/13/08

GRAVE GOODS
9/7/08

Glass Bead Making at Bonfield
9/3/08

Hey - I * AM * one of those people...
8/28/08

GRAVE GOODS - Opening!
8/27/08

What ever happened to... (Braun McAsh)
8/26/08

Ad Mail from the Conservatives
8/23/08

‘Vikings’ building boat on Northern Peninsula
8/22/08

Dianne Heron : 1945 - 2008
8/14/08

Acid Etching ??
8/2/08

What Happened to OUTLANDER...
7/31/08

Iron Smelting with Jake Keen
7/29/08

'T' Shaped Broadaxe - New details
7/22/08

Forging Broadaxe Video
7/18/08

Ship Tools - Adze / Broadaxe
7/18/08

Norse Woodworking Axes
7/16/08

Using Sources - Norse Ship Tools
7/11/08

Carbon and the Forge
7/7/08
the Aristotle Furnace Demonstration
7/3/08

ERROR CORRECTION - Ore Analog Composition
6/25/08

Report on June 08 Smelt
6/24/08

Meteors in Forge and History
6/21/08

June 08 - On Slag Balances
6/20/08

DARC Spring Smelt - Draft Report
6/16/08

Ores and Furnaces in 'the Colonies'
6/13/08

Spring Smelt - June 14
6/12/08

Heltborg Experimental Notes Available
6/10/08

Museums in Denmark
6/6/08

Photography in Museums
6/5/08

Tranemo Team Bellows
6/2/08

Viking Ships at Roskilde
5/31/08

Norse Welding Flux?
5/28/08
DeMystifying Layered Steels
5/27/08

'Espelund' Two Stage Process - Overview
5/25/08

OVERVIEW - Iron Smelting at Heltborg
5/24/08

Tents at Ribe Viking Centre
5/13/08

Viking Age Ship Building Tools
5/12/08

Iron Smelting Seminar in Thy 2008 - IMAGES
5/8/08

Danish Bronze Age Site
5/6/08

ROSKILDE - Shots around town
4/25/08

ROSKILDE - About Town...
4/24/08

ROSKILDE - The Viking Ship Museum
4/23/08

Travelogue 1A - Staying in Roskilde
4/22/08

DEMARK Research Trip
4/20/08

April 13 Smelt - Overview
4/18/08

Biting off more than you can chew?
4/10/08

'Econo Norse in a Can'
4/9/08

FLASH - Smelt on Sunday April 13
4/7/08

Iron Smelting Seminar in Thy 2008 - Schedule
4/7/08

SMELTFEST 08 - Overview with images
4/3/08

April Fool's - Again
4/2/08

Hanging at the Sauders
4/1/08

SMELTFEST 08 - Experiment Notes
3/31/08

Air Volumes - Smeltfest 08
3/26/08

What the forecast says: Tonight..Snow at times heavy...
3/25/08

Overview - SMELTFEST 08
3/25/08

SMELTFEST 08
3/13/08

Iron Smelt Movie Test
3/13/08

DARC DIRT ONE - draft notes
3/10/08

Bead Bellows Reconstruction
3/8/08

Caught between a Grant and a Hard Place
3/7/08

Grave Goods - First Artist Selection
3/7/08

ONGOING - notes on what is happening
3/4/08

Getting Free (??) Money 1
2/24/08

Viking Iron in DENMARK
2/20/08

NEW and Revised!
2/9/08

Raining Against E-bay
2/5/08

Caught in the web (again)
2/4/08

Bog Ore Crush Test
2/1/08

From the Real World
1/29/08

From the Real World
1/29/08

Bellows Reonstruction 3
1/28/08

Last week...
1/26/08

Bellows Reconstruction 2
1/25/08

Testing Dark Ages AIR
1/24/08
On Tylecote - 'A little Learning...
1/14/08

Impact of Viking Age Weapons
1/12/08

2008 Courses?
1/7/08

Modern Skills applied to Ancient Craft?
1/5/08

Bellows and Nails ??
1/4/08

Ritual and Meteors
1/3/08



2007 Experimental Overviews Available
12/24/07

Expanded Smelt Data iron smelting
12/21/07

Easier than Smelting!
12/12/07

Terrorism is NOT Art
12/8/07

'Gangue aux Fer' - on Early Iron
12/6/07

Electric Blower for Iron Smelting
11/29/07

Martin Course Smelt
11/27/07

Winter Considerations
11/24/07

Extending Asumptions
11/21/07

Beowulf / Shamol-wulf
11/13/07

Riverdale House - 2nd Install
11/7/07

Icelandic Smelt Two (report)
11/1/07

Recording Smelting Slags
11/1/07

Bellows Test
10/30/07

Historic Blooms?
10/26/07

GRAVE GOODS - Call for Entry
10/21/07

Possible FOOT powered air system
10/19/07

Thanksgiving Smelt - some considerations
10/16/07

Icelandic Smelt ONE - published images
10/15/07

Support Our Troops Ribbons
10/11/07

Thanksgiving smelt - Draft report
10/8/07

Data from Williams & Nissen smelt
10/4/07

Rural High Speed (as if!)
10/4/07

Riverdale House - 1st Install!
10/3/07

Thanksgiving Smelt - Preparations
9/30/07

Towards an Icelandic Smelter
9/28/07

Viking Age Seax Two
9/17/07

Forging the Elements
8/28/07

'Rivendale'
8/24/07

August Shows! blacksmith
8/4/07

Smelters & Archaeology - Some Questions
7/31/07

Viking Age Blacksmith's Bellows
7/27/07

What I've Been Doing - Summer '07
7/11/07

Report on Double Smelt - June 9
6/23/07

A Re-Enactor's Knife Design.
6/21/07

Ceramic Tuyeres for Smelting?
6/17/07

Historic Iron Smelting - Questions & Problems
6/16/07

'Hot Swap' Double Smelt
6/11/07

Iron Smelt Course Results...
6/5/07

Preparing an Iron Smelt
5/29/07

'Copper Alloy" ??
5/25/07

Oseberg Tripod - Interpretations
5/12/07

Oseberg Tripod - My Interpretation...
5/10/07

Oseberg Tripod - Measurements
5/2/07

Blacksmithing Tools for SALE
5/1/07

Early Pattern Welding Experiments
5/1/07

Norse Womans' Knife
4/20/07

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
On the Sutton Hoo Sword

Thursday, April 05, 2007
Pattern Welding Samples

Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Iron from Celtic to Early Medieval

Sunday, March 25, 2007
Left or Right Hand?

Saturday, March 17, 2007
Now with ISBN

Friday, March 16, 2007
Experimental Iron Smelting Disk Released

Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Comments on the heat treating posting.

Sunday, March 11, 2007
Viking Age SWORDS - part 3 - HEAT TREATING

Monday, March 05, 2007
Historic Interpreter versus Re-enactor

Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Knowledge or Widsom?

Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Knowledge or Widsom?

Monday, February 19, 2007
Norse Weapons - who has what?

Saturday, February 17, 2007
Viking Age SWORDS - part 2, ALLOYS

Friday, February 16, 2007
On Vikng Age SWORDS - Design

Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Making a Norse Cauldron?

Monday, February 05, 2007
Norse Hammers?

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Blade Surfaces - Viking Age

Sunday, January 28, 2007
Knives from the Viking Age

Sunday, January 28, 2007
Knives from the Viking Age

Saturday, January 13, 2007
On Trough Forges...

Saturday, January 06, 2007
Blacksmith Equipment 1775 - 1812

Monday, January 01, 2007
Comments - Iron Raven


Sunday, December 31, 2006
'Outlander' - Fan SIte

Friday, December 29, 2006
On Copy - Who Holds the Rights

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
2007 - TENTATIVE dates...

Friday, December 15, 2006
(Re:Comment) On Custom Work...

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
'Career' as Artisan Blacksmith?

Tuesday, December 12, 2006
on Runes...

Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Minden Ore Goo - Loki Smelt

Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Lectures in Peterborough This Week

Thursday, November 16, 2006
Gilling West Sword Replica # 2

Monday, November 13, 2006
Westward Viking - Dr Birgitta Wallace

Tuesday, November 07, 2006
'Redemption' Smelt - 11/07/06
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Early Iron 3 - Smelt Two to Norse Anvil!

Saturday, October 28, 2006
Blower Rates

Friday, October 20, 2006
'Loki' Smelter - part 2

Thursday, October 19, 2006
'Loki' Smelter at Early Iron

Monday, October 16, 2006
Viking Age Cauldron Hanger

Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Outlander - Chain with Shackles

Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Early Iron 3 - this Weekend!

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Oseberg Tripod Replica

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Just WHO spilt the beans? (Outlander)

Saturday, September 23, 2006
'Outlander' - Viking Age Cookware

Wednesday, September 13, 2006
the Vikings Return!

Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Viking Age Smelt - September 2

Wednesday, August 30, 2006
On Viking Age KNIVES

Sunday, August 27, 2006
"Outlander' - Norse film objects

Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Norse Meat Spit - Period Fluxes?

Friday, August 18, 2006
Where is He??

Friday, August 18, 2006
Considering a Knife

Thursday, August 03, 2006
Reforging Iron in Pictish Scotland - Number Two

Sunday, July 30, 2006
Left in the Dust on the Internet Superhighway

Friday, July 28, 2006
"Reforging Iron in Pictish Scotland 850-1050AD

Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Celtic Winds

Monday, July 24, 2006
Lebanon

Monday, July 24, 2006
Pattern Welded Sgian Dubh

Sunday, July 23, 2006
Norse / Saxon fighting axe

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Replica of the Gilling West Sword

Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Defining the Smith (part 3)

Wednesday, July 05, 2006
On Wrought Iron (part 2)

Thursday, June 29, 2006
Defining the Artist Blacksmith (part 1)

Friday, June 23, 2006
'What they Carried' - On Norse Tents

Thursday, June 15, 2006
Ring Pins...

Monday, June 12, 2006
June 10 Smelt Draft Report

Friday, June 09, 2006
June 10 Iron Smelt

Sunday, June 04, 2006
Bloom to Pattern Weld Question

Friday, June 02, 2006
June 1 - Courses

Friday, June 02, 2006
Thoughts on the Origins of Pattern Welding

Wednesday, May 31, 2006
New Smelting Area!

Friday, May 26, 2006
COURSES - update

Friday, May 26, 2006
Coins and Coin Dies

Thursday, May 18, 2006
Forges - What is is worth?

Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Tripods in the Viking Age

Friday, May 12, 2006
What things Cost...

Monday, May 08, 2006
On Safety Eyewear...

Monday, May 01, 2006
Charcoal in smelting - 'Size does too count'

Friday, April 28, 2006
Teens as Students?

Thursday, April 27, 2006
Computer Confusion / New Links

Monday, April 24, 2006
Some Iron links

Friday, April 21, 2006
Some 'Bloom to Bar' Links

Friday, April 21, 2006
First Bloom to Bar (older post)

Sunday, April 16, 2006
Blooms On Hand

Sunday, April 16, 2006
Compacting Blooms

Friday, April 14, 2006
Note on May Courses

Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Caught in the web...

Monday, April 03, 2006
Warping the Web

Thursday, March 30, 2006
IRON CORRECTION

Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Adventures in Early Iron...

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
...but its only the kindling

Monday, March 27, 2006
Starting the Fire...


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