Tip # 6 Scale removal old school

Mark Williams

Mark Williams

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TO MAKE STEEL AND IRON AS WHITE AS SILVER
Take 1 pound of ashes from white ash bark, dissolve in soft water. Heat your iron red, and cool in this solution, and the iron will turn white as silver.

Taken from 1904 blacksmith guide


Havent tried it but thought it was cool

Mark
 
Does anyone have enough white ash bark to spare for a pound of ashes? I'm serious. I'd like to try it.

Mark
 
Ain't got no white ash trees here in Kaintuckee, but plenty of white oak.
I've read that one before but never tried it. Keep us posted.
 
Memory could very well be wrong, but I thought baseball bats were generally ash. MIght someone have a way of getting a bunch of old, or even better, broken bats that they could then cook down for this?

Heck, if you can remove the outer varnish, guessing ash, as a hardwood, would be nice to run through your smoker too. Smoke up some venison, save the ashes, then use it to remove scale.
 
I've got arizona ash but no white ash. I need to do some limb cutting in the next month or so. I have no idea if they are even related.

Craig
 
Native to most of the eastern half of the U. S. and southeastern Canada
 
we have brown ash here :)

"ashes from white ash bark" I'm thinking that bats don't have bark
:D sorry had to :footinmou
 
Ash is very prominent in ancient European history. Not only was it the wood of choice for spear shafts and axe handles (the wood is quite hard and has a very straight grain) it was considered to have certain mystical qualities. Vikings saw it as a fertility and healing medium. Ancient Celts and Druids forbade the felling of ash trees. Others thought it gave them good fortune...

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