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Blacksmithing!; Monday, Second Period [07/10].
"As far as things go here at the Blackstone Foundry and Forge," said Amaya, as she got started in on the lesson for the day with a nod toward the students as they gathered around, "we spend a lot more time focused on the forge aspect rather than the foundry, but that's an aspect of blacksmithing that deserves a good bit of attention, too. Sure, you don't quite have the satisfaction of pounding out a piece of metal to submit to your will like you do when you're working the anvils, but there's no denying that melting metal down into a liquid form and pouring it into something to give it a new shape and purpose in life has its merits, too! So that's what we'll be working with today: liquid hot metal and pouring it into things, or, as it's more commonly known as, casting!
"And it really is as simple as it sounds," she continued. "In blacksmithing, casting is usually used when you either want to work on something with very intricate details that yo're not going to be able to manage to get with a more conventional hammer, especially for things like hilts or jewelry, or if you're mass-prodcing things. I have a few molds for standard basic swords, axe heads, arrowheads, and spear points, which work nicely when I've got a big order and no time to hammer that all out myself. And as long as you've got a mold for it, you can make pretty much anything with casting. And there are, of course, many diffferent forms of casting..."
Of course, this was going to lead Amaya into the expected breakdown of several different types, and explaining that they'll be doing a simple melt and pour method to start out, but mentioning that, of course, if anyone would live to give any other methods a try, she'd got most of the equipment, especially for sand casting, so by all means...
A little more about the science and the method of it all, and, really, for an Amaya Blackstone lecture, it was pretty straight and to the point and not even terribly rambly. It really didn't need to be much more complicated than that at this level, which hopefully meant more time to melt some metal and pour it into some molds.
And please, please not on yourself, Beaker.
"And it really is as simple as it sounds," she continued. "In blacksmithing, casting is usually used when you either want to work on something with very intricate details that yo're not going to be able to manage to get with a more conventional hammer, especially for things like hilts or jewelry, or if you're mass-prodcing things. I have a few molds for standard basic swords, axe heads, arrowheads, and spear points, which work nicely when I've got a big order and no time to hammer that all out myself. And as long as you've got a mold for it, you can make pretty much anything with casting. And there are, of course, many diffferent forms of casting..."
Of course, this was going to lead Amaya into the expected breakdown of several different types, and explaining that they'll be doing a simple melt and pour method to start out, but mentioning that, of course, if anyone would live to give any other methods a try, she'd got most of the equipment, especially for sand casting, so by all means...
A little more about the science and the method of it all, and, really, for an Amaya Blackstone lecture, it was pretty straight and to the point and not even terribly rambly. It really didn't need to be much more complicated than that at this level, which hopefully meant more time to melt some metal and pour it into some molds.
And please, please not on yourself, Beaker.
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