God prefers stock removal

Mark Williams

Mark Williams

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No sacrilage intended.

Found this down at the beach wedged under a rock. The pointy end was up. The rise and fall of the tide wore it down this way. I thought it was wrought iron but not so sure after forging a piece into a guard. Felt like tough butter to forge.The grain is real fine. I havent tried hardening any yet.Thought you guys might like it. This is just the thinest two feet of it. It was about2" at the thickest section. God only knows what it was originally:)
 
Wow Mark, that is awesome!!!
Maybe it's a unicorn horn and you're the bastid that has the only one on earth! :D
No wait, it's a narwhal tusk, yeah that's it!!!
No, those are ivory.
Hmmm, maybe it's a chunk of the Titanic that washed up from the depths.
What ever it is, I'm livin near the wrong beach, lol!!!
 
Don't know what it was, but you made a hell of a nice-looking guard out of it!
 
Narwhal tusk for sure but it's petrified, that is iron atoms have diffused into the ivory over the years.
 
"God prefers stock removal"

Well, Kit and I have known this for years, just didn't want to make the rest of you feel bad, by saying anything. .....;) :D
 
Mark, was that iron squarish at the big end? I bet its a piece of old wrought iron power shafting off an old ship. The really old stuff was not very strong, and in manufacture was twisted and forged square. Twisting tightened the grain, and compressed voids and inclusions etc. made it stiffer. The narwhal effect is simply years of erosion revealing the inner structure. just guessing, but what the hey. a fascinating find.
 
Well that's just awesome! I don't believe in coincidence, something good's coming of this! Thanks for sharing Mark, that is really something (can't suggest what though). (But that guard leaves nothing to the imagination!)

Dave
 
Ain't that a hotdog/marshmellow roaster? Nice job on the guard! If its wrought iron its got to be a real high grade. Normally if its been in the ocean for a while it will rust so much that you can see the layers in it.
 
Nah, God wasn't stock removing that piece. He just had it pointed magnetic north while normalizing it. :)

Tim
 
It was kinda squarish on the ends. Ray it did have a lot of loose layers of rust on it. Light tap;ping and it all just fell of in big clumps. I love finding old stuff like this.
 
I can believe that the Christian God prefers stock-removal simply because it was the Viking gods who preferred the forge.

How's that for a can-o-worms statement?

:D :D :D
 
Sweany, It was the Roman god, Vulcan. He was the god of fire and volcanos and maker of armor and weapons for heroes. His forge is believed to be under Mount Aetna.

I got my training under Vulcan. Here's a pic of me and him working on a mighty sword. I'm the one manning the blower...

http://keenjunk.com/sketchbk/pr20716.htm
 
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