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Pat B:
I have an old wood wagon wheel the most of the wood has rotted away. Does anyone know if the tire(metal) or the metal bands that hold the hub together would be good forging blades.   (f)

osage outlaw:
Good question Pat.  I found a wagon wheel in the middle of our woods years ago.  You can see where it was forge welded together. 

dylanholderman:
not good blade steel but it is good furniture steel.
actual old wagon wheels are made from wrought iron( even lower carbon then mild steel) but because of how it was manufactured the impurity's in it make for some interesting patterns that make it good for hilt parts or forge welding to a high carbon steel for the edge.

Pat B:
Maybe I'll make a gong out of it. How about the bands that hold the hub together? Different function, different material?

Hawkdancer:
I would think the cooperage (barrel) bands would be a higher grade is steel, but I am not a mettallurgist or a blacksmith.
Hawkdancer

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