Just wanted to thank Redarch for hosting this. My Paladin apologizes for leaving early, but he had to get to the last lecture of Oane's series. Still, I learned a lot from what I saw and look forward to the day that he can actually get some coal without nearly collapsing afterwards!

For you more experiences forgers, Redarch said he's doing a series for you, probably in about two weeks or so. Think I'm gonna have to crash it!


~Thilan

I might have an old lecture by Phanton...

If I do you're welcome to use it on your advanced forging lectures..

Have fun!

ex-forger-mentor and still friend ......

Red,

I found my files and I don't have the actual script for the lecture...but I have some 2 years worth of logs.. so it's just a matter of time till I find a log that contains the lecture. I found some other forging notes that might be of some use..as soon as I find the log I'll send you a packet with everything I got.

::starts searching logs again::

Have fun!

ex-mentor-mixer and still lurking around

quick lesson I gave in case anybody needs some insight

<<<You say, "Ok, so forging is simple"
>
You say, "Lessons in armor really don't mean all that much"
>
Rohi puts his backpack in his journey pack.
>
You say, "after 150-160, you can cap any type of armor"
>
You say, "Depending on the mix"
>
Rohi nods.

You say, "The mix is what determines the caps of the item"
>
You say, "Lighter mixes usually deem lower caps"

Rohi asks, "are the mixes secrets?"
>
You say, "Unless done right"
>
You say, "No"

You say, "But there is a key formula"

You ask, "Do you know how to calculate end dust?"
>
Rohi says, "no I don't"
>'Ok
You say, "Ok"
>
You say, "So to get a "steel" mix."

You say, "which is the disired result"
>
Rohi nods.

You say, "you have your mix and end it with dust to make steel"

You say, "a coal dust weighs 2 stones"

You say, "stones"

You say, "and has a .2 volume"

You say, "you want to add 1 dust per every 80 stones"

You say, "or "

You say, ".5 dust per 40 stoens"
>
You say, "So let's say you have a mix for a great helm"
>
Rohi nods.

You say, "This is a mix you might want to write down, it's one of mine."
>
Rohi nods.

You say, "a Great helm has a volume of 4 bars"
>

You say, "I'll use 3 iron bars and 1 zinc bar for the mix"

You say, "iron bars weigh 51 stones each"
>
Rohi nods.
>
You say, "And the zinc bar weighs 48 stones"

You say, "Giving me a total of 201 stones"
>
Rohi nods.

You say, "The easiest formula I use to figure out how much I need for my end dust is"

>

You say, "Weight of end dust in stones / weight of mix in stones = .025"

You say, "which is this case is"

You say, "X / 201 = .025"

You say, "The closer you are to .025, the better quality of steel you will get"
>

Rohi nods.

You say, "so"

You say, "if our X is 5"

You say, "we get"

You say, "5 / 201 = .02487"

You say, "Which is extremely close"

Rohi says, "very close"

You say, "X = 5 = 2 and a half coal dust"

You say, "to get a half coal dust"

You say, "BREAK one"

You ask, "That make sense?"
>
Rohi says, "got it"
>
You say, "Ok, that's just the end dust"

You say, "That's the EASY formula"
>cack
You cackle!

>
Rohi says, "i suspected as much"

You say, "The most important formula to remember when using predust is such that {(weight of pre material > weight of dust) < weight of iron}. And that is before you add or calculate any end dust.

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