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Yett hanging in the main entrance of Blackness Castle, Scotland, showing attached bolts and pierced construction.Wrought in 1693. [1]A yett (from the Old English and Scots language word for "gate") [2] is a gate or grille of latticed wrought iron bars used for defensive purposes in castles and tower houses. [3]
This allows the sword to have the strength and the ability to hold a sharp edge, as well as to cause the sword to tend to bend rather than flex under stress. The process starts in the combining of the iron and carbon, by heating iron sand to 1200-1500 degrees Celsius in a traditional furnace, or tatara, for 72 hours.
Molten metal before casting Casting iron in a sand mold. In metalworking and jewelry making, casting is a process in which a liquid metal is delivered into a mold (usually by a crucible) that contains a negative impression (i.e., a three-dimensional negative image) of the intended shape.
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Recipes for making it vary, but primarily include graveyard dirt and snakeskin. Other ingredients may include ash, powdered sulfur , salt , powdered bones , powdered insect chitin , dried manure, herbs , spices and " anvil dust" — the fine black iron detritus found around a blacksmith's anvil.
The second recipe is a Blue Plate, which is created using one Blue Glaze and two Terracotta. Both of these items require crafting with the Blue Glaze being created by combining Blueberries and Mud ...
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