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    If you want to blow into the barrel,cut off a foot and drill holes to make it into a fife!! They actually did make a few old musket barrels into fifes back then. A handy piece of tubing for a soldier who had few available tools to use.

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    Quote Originally Posted by george wilson View Post
    If you want to blow into the barrel,cut off a foot and drill holes to make it into a fife!! They actually did make a few old musket barrels into fifes back then. A handy piece of tubing for a soldier who had few available tools to use.
    a fifi or flute that could serve as a heavy club, better idea by Ford

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    Mr. Dunbar runs a school for Windsor chair making. I did not see anything about gun barrels. Must be someone else. It was somewhere else that i read part of what makes old cast steel blades great was the forging process. Working a blade repeatedly with a hammer could improve the grain structure. then i guess you had to fold it on itself because it got too thin. The author was not talking about the Damascus process.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noah Wagener View Post
    It was somewhere else that i read part of what makes old cast steel blades great was the forging process. Working a blade repeatedly with a hammer could improve the grain structure. then i guess you had to fold it on itself because it got too thin.
    It's the folding process that made them so great... beating them was just part of the process. It evens out the carbon content, and the layers (grain structure) provide great strength and flexibility.
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