What is cold forged iron and how do you make it?

Question

This kind of goes with my question before as I got a couple of answers that had to do with cold forged iron. Which makes absolutely NO sense to me.

Answer 1

Its iron items that are forged without heating it, which makes the metal harder. IT was mainly used for sturdier instruments before alloys were made

Answer 2

Cold Forged Iron

Answer 3

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What is cold forged iron and how do you make it?
This kind of goes with my question before as I got a couple of answers that had to do with cold forged iron. Which makes absolutely NO sense to me.

Answer 4

You get a block of cold iron and then *wham*! you hit it with a forge thing, which smashes it into a mold. It takes a lot of pressure to press it into shape, so you need a heavy forge or you need to make the forge go really fast (like dropping it from high above the metal.)

Regular cast iron is melted and poured into molds. Wrought iron is heated up and then hammered into shape or hammered into molds.

Answer 5

Uh, riiight (referring to the other answers so far)

Avoid forge thingies.

Get an anvil and a hammer, and some iron (kind of hard nowadays, go to a wrought-iron fence making place and ask for some 'quarter inch stock'.

Hold the piece of iron on the anvil with your left hand as you use the hammer in your right hand and beat it. Practice a lot and you will find that you can shape it, but the result is usually very brittle and not quite the shape you wanted.

Answer 6

Notice it is cold forged iron not steel as you need fire to forge iron into steel which is a stronger harder metal cold forged iron is hammered into shape purely with tools then diped in cold water to sz=set the iron