ACOUP - Iron, How Did They Make It? Part II, Trees for Bloom

Now that our ore is out of the ground, we want to get it to our forge. But before it’s ready for forging, there’s a few steps we need to take to prepare the iron for working. In this post, Bret covers the introduction of wood (in the form of charcoal) and heat into the iron-working process with roasting and smelting.

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