Metallurgy in Firearms

I posted several months back about Firearms History, Technology & Development, and that I had added it to my Blogroll and to the Gun Blog Black Lis.t.  There are currently on the top 2 pages ten posts about the metals used in firearms manufacture.

Such as in Part 10 about how iron ore has been turned into Iron, used in the manufacture of firearms and other things.


"In the Walloon process, the finery forge is used to melt the iron as described above and then it is hammered to remove the slag. Then the iron is heated again in a separate chafery forge, not to melting temperature, but just enough to make the iron soft, so that it can be shaped into bars of standard sizes. The bars of iron can now be sold to customers. The finery forge must use charcoal as its fuel, for the reasons explained above in the previous paragraph, but the chafery forge can use other fuels such as coal or gas as well, because it does not heat the iron enough to melt it and therefore cannot add impurities to the alloy. Typically, the Walloon process would use one chafery for every two or three finery forges."

So click on either the excerpt above to read Part 10 Orrrrrr click on the following link to get directly to the front page:Firearms History, Technology & Development