User talk:BlacksmithEPD

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Hi, I'm Zaereth. I wanted to welcome you to Wikipedia and let you know that I reverted your edits to the forge welding article. Having an edit reverted is a common thing on Wikipedia, so please don't take it personally. Wikipedia has certain rules, which your edits did not meet.

This was done mainly because our policy does not allow original research. If you can provide sources which confirm the information, it could be reinserted, but would need other modifications. For instance, the melting point of wustite is ~ 2600 degrees F, but as soon as it touches air it starts transforming into hematite and magnetite (the three constituents of slag and scale) which has a much higher melting point of 2800 degrees. The wet appearance is due to the phase transition into delta iron, not from the oxides. Although it is possible to weld without flux, Charpy tests show this is rarely as effective as fluxed welds. Pattern welded blades most certainly used fluxes, including blades made from eastern crucible steels, which were composite steels to begin with. Another problem is that copper is completely insoluble with iron. It will mix with steel in very small amounts depending on carbon content, but the melting point of copper is much lower than the welding point of steel, so mokume-gane steels were typically made by mixing them in a crucible as molten metals, in quantities above the saturation point, which act like oil and water. You can find this discussed in detail by authors like Smith, Buchwald, Turn, or Williams, among many others.

Aside from the technical problems, there are other problems of style, which should be encyclopedic. See: [[Wikipedia:Manual of style). Wikipedia is not an instruction manual, so the writing needs to be more generalized. For more information, see the links I provided above. The main thing to remember is to provide reliable source for the information you write, not knowledge from your own experience. I hope that helps, and happy editing. Zaereth (talk) 22:09, 16 November 2016 (UTC)