Steel

[Thudz]

Well, you guys probably know where I'm going with this (along the lines of my survival stuff). If we needed to start from scratch, and build tools etc, I could easily visualize having the ability to make a brick furnace, get fuel (coal), heat iron and pound it into different tools. I've seen the guys doing this (at the settlement re-creation I was talking about), and it's not that complex. They have a big oven, a bellow to pump air in, a hammer, and an anvil. I'm sure it takes years to become proficient, but at least its do-able. The guy I was talking to was making nails at the time, but he said that from a few tools, he could make all his other tools. I thought that was pretty neat. The biggest question in my mind was, the jump from iron to steel. And it sounds like it's not that big of a jump.

You will be our blacksmith and I'll be our gunsmith. I've actually been researching getting a Dillion press and reloading my own ammo. Of course we need a supply of powder, primers, brass and lead.