wagon wheel steel

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JT no idea on pricing on rims. Hard to tell definitely with out a bend and break test, on some especially more corroded pieces you can see striations in the metal from the silica inclusions that make it look like wood grain. All the ones I have been saved from scrap or traded. I'm in eastern wa and have brought a bunch to Dave Lisch's black smith swap meet in Seattle the last few years and sell a bit online and get $ 2.50 per lb. fun stuff to work with and looks great as fittings or in composite blades like your seax project. Chris
 
Yeah I have some nice wrought iron I have collected over the years but it seams like I like to use it more and more. That being the case I would like to round up more. I have 2 1" diamater bars that are around 5 feet long each. I pulled them From an old abandoned mine in Utah. Nice size stock but if the rims where wrought then that would give nice size strips.
 
They are actually called "tires" believe it or not.
Majority I found are wrought, but steel found occasionaly. I presume steel tires made at the farm or by a local Smith during the last days of folks using wagons. What in some areas, well into 1930s

As said, its hit or miss quality-wise. Wrought can be fun forging.
 
You would be surprised how many are just mild steel. I have some friends in the east coast "rural vermont" who says for him its about a 1 in 10 chance of the tires being real wrought.
 
As said, they aren't all wrought iron.

JT - This thread is twelve years old. Come on guys - look at the dates!
 
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