The paynefull smith, with force of fervent heat, The hardest yron soone doth mollify, That with his heavy sledge he can it beat, And fashion it to what he it list apply.
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
They figured out a way to control that hamburger disease. You dip the hamburger into the scalding hot coffee before eating.
You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God.
Steel is needed everywhere.
The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. It is pounded and struck repeatedly before it's plunged back into the molten fire. The fire gives it power and flexibility, and the blows give it STRENGTH. Those two thing make the metal pliable and able to withstand every battle it's called upon to fight.
Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force
You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.
We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric.
Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense.
The blade must past threw the fire, else it breaks.
You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
The early firings contained many stones.
The trouble with vitreous water is that vitrification should be impossible.
One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
If gold must be gold, it must pass through the furnace.
I found the brick-making process fascinating - how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I'd do the same at a hillock near my school - just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.
I rest my proteins in their liquid when I am done with the heat braise.
A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.
