"Ore to Axe" film

[Steve Tall]

A quote from Lee Sauder:

"This is the trailer for"Ore To Axe", a beautful documentary by filmmaker Ken Koons that follows me and my friends Steve Mankowski and Shel Browder as we find iron ore, make charcoal, build a bloomery, smelt a bloom of iron, resmelt some of the iron to steel, and finally forge the iron and steel into an axe."

[video=youtube_share;vWxs7ZV5Ly8]http://youtu.be/vWxs7ZV5Ly8[/video]

http://www.leesauder.com/smelting_video.php

 

[Steve Tall]

Some information about low-tech ironmaking, from the Foxfire 5 book, edited by Eliot Wiggenton:

http://books.google.com/books?id=MDk-XfM6HEIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[Operator1975]

That was pretty awesome. Thanks for sharing!!

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Very cool! Will be interested in seeing more!