Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Backyard steel. Tamahagane. Bloomery steel. Call it whatever you want...it IS possible to make steel from iron ore (which is more or less a fancy word for dirt) in your backyard. Is it easy? Nope. But it's possible. Watch as sword maker Walter Sorrells shows the smelting of steel using a simple backyard furnace that cost about $50 bucks to make.

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