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"Darrell Markewitz is a professional blacksmith who specializes
in the Viking Age. He designed the living History program for L'Anse aux Meadows
and has worked on a number of major international exhibits. Recent passions
have included experimental iron smelting."
The primary content to the BLOG are short pieces related to metalwork and the
Viking Age. There is a concentration of articles related to the ongoing IRON
SMELTING experiments. Many posts relate to the technical aspects of forging
objects from the Viking Age. Of course there are some general commentaries on
the Arts, and the world in general.
I consider the main web site to be like a published book, the blog to be more
like a magazine. I normally try to post a new piece roughly twice every week
- and this blog has been active since March of 2006. Many of the offerings are
re-worked versions of long answers to e-mails or pieces for one of the several
discussion groups I am active in. Note that this list just gives the article
titles and the dates posted. Readers are advised to go to the blog itself use
the listed topic key words or the 'search this blog' function provided by Blogger
to find specific subjects.
List last revised - January 22, 2010
(newest to oldest)
Be serious - or don't waste my time!
1/21/10
Richards House Railing - Completed!
1/18/10
2010 Year Event Schedule
1/16/10
I was a Celt...
1/13/10
2010 Courses in Metalsmithing
1/12/10
Prorogue Parliament - Let's not come to work
1/8/10
Vinland 3 Smelt - Report Available
1/3/10
AVATAR (yet another) Review
12/31/09
Vinland 2 Smelt - Report Available
12/30/09
Modern Iron Smelting
12/29/09
Spreading Flat Bar
12/28/09
Vinland 2 Smelt - Report Available
12/30/09
Modern Iron Smelting
12/29/09
Spreading Flat Bar
12/28/09
2009 'Vinland' Smelt Reports
12/27/09
Far From Home - but not Forgotten
12/26/09
'Does anyone here remember - Roger Dean?'
12/21/09
Richards House Railing One
12/20/09
*Iron* Age vs *Viking* Age? 12/15/09
Objects - Authenticity Levels?
12/12/09
Vinland Smelt - Matching the Evidence
12/7/09
A 'New Age Fake Mystic Cash Cow' Design
12/4/09
Finding Primary Bog Ore?
11/28/09
'Christmas in the Country'
11/27/09
Don't look like much...
11/26/09
Where do IDEAS come from?
11/19/09
CANIRON 8 - Comes to Ontario!
11/17/09
Vinland 3 on YouTube
11/16/09
the Everyday as Artifact - 'Motel of the Mysteries
11/14/09
On "the Guns of 24/7"
11/11/09
Vinland 3 Smelt - Draft Report
11/9/09
Undersea to Shore
11/3/09
Vinland 3 Smelter Build
11/3/09
On forges, chimneys - and blowers
11/1/09
Spears for Vinland
10/27/09
Clay at L'Anse aux Meadows?
10/25/09
A Furnace at Vinland - Construction Possibilities
10/22/09
Welding at low temperatures?
10/19/09
On Larger Charcoal Fires?
10/18/09
Smithing Tool Auction
10/15/09
Vinland 2 Smelt - On YouTube
10/14/09
Vinland Smelt 2 - Fast Results
10/12/09
Piston Bellows (1)
10/6/09
Junk Science...
10/4/09
So - You want to join DARC
10/2/09
Now from China...
9/30/09
Norse and Anglo-Saxon Knives - grind profiles
9/22/09
Shifting Shapes
9/16/09
Forging Norse Arrow Heads - Two
9/10/09
Forging Norse Arrow Heads - Details
9/9/09
Forging Norse Arrow Heads
9/9/09
Trade Like the Norse - Coins and Currency at the Althing
9/3/09
...and now for something COMPLETELY different!
8/29/09
On : "Viking garb accessories..belt and pouch?"
8/29/09
Snatched from the Fire?
8/27/09
'That don't look like the drawing!'
8/25/09
Catherine Crowe Launches Enamel Supplies
8/22/09
I had this knife...
8/18/09
A Viking Age pot to...
8/13/09
Ideas? Forms from Nature
7/31/09
" I love it when a plan comes together...
7/29/09
..but can you DRAW it?
7/23/09
IRON Mandrils - Iron Oxide bead release?
7/22/09
Working / Temperatures - VA Bead Furnace
7/20/09
Beadmaking - Working with Tesseri
7/19/09
Bead Furnace - Gas Jet 3
7/11/09
CANIRON 7
7/10/09
Glass Bead Making Furnace
7/6/09
Canada Day Beaver
7/1/09
Cold Forming Reversal Curves - on YouTube
6/25/09
Free Guide : 'The Art of Managing Your Career'
6/20/09
"If only I could BOTTLE it..."
6/19/09
What Six Hours gets you...
6/16/09
Forging Elements - Tools for Rushes
6/15/09
Forging Elements - 'Rush Tip'
6/11/09
Boats, Bilges - and Blisters
6/9/09
65 Years On...
6/7/09
Cutting the Bloom
6/6/09
Input - Output : LAM One Smelt
6/5/09
Meltalworking Safety for the Viking Age?
6/2/09
Vinland Iron Smelt (on YouTube)
6/1/09
Results - LAM 1 Smelt (draft)
5/31/09
Vikings came first...
5/29/09
LAM 'Furnce Hut' Photographs
5/29/09
A Furnace for Vinland
5/28/09
Norse in Northern Canada
5/28/09
John Little - Inflating Sheet
5/26/09
'Quenched in the body of a Slave...'
5/18/09
Jake Powning - VA Pattern Welded Sword
5/12/09
HEAVY Forging!
5/8/09
A Weekend Course - 'What will I get out of it?'
5/7/09
L'Anse aux Meadows Smelt - Working Area
5/5/09
L'Anse aux Meadows Smelt - Ore Analog
5/4/09
Who were the Vikings? Some basic Q & A
4/30/09
History (versus or plus?) Archaeology
4/27/09
Forging Elements - 'Kelp'
4/24/09
Winter Weathering - Icelandic Destruction!
4/14/09
Layout of the Wareham Forge
4/11/09
Viking Age Tents - Oseberg evidence
4/9/09
'Bridges & Doors'
4/6/09
Lectures on Saturday!
4/3/09
Ancient Iron Working Discovered...
4/3/09
Smeltfest 09 - Preliminary Overview
3/30/09
Forging the BIG time
3/25/09
Traveling with Marine Mammals
3/11/09
No - I really DID mean to do it that way...
3/4/09
more on ULFBERHT...
3/3/09
Lectures - Forward Into the Past
3/3/09
'ULFLBERHT' - or not (a test method)
3/2/09
Ves*sels Exhibit at BMFA
2/28/09
Folly at the Forge
2/26/09
Charcoals for Smelting
2/24/09
'Viking Encampment - 2008
2/19/09
'A' Frame Tent Covers...
2/15/09
Thule versus Norse?
2/15/09
2009 - Year at a Glance
2/12/09
Shrinking into Curves
2/12/09
Tools and Measures (and legondary tales)
2/11/09
Bronze Casting in Green Sand
2/9/09
'Continuing Adventures in Early Iron'
2/7/09
All 39 Smelts Linked to Reports
2/5/09
Experiment Data : 2001 - 2008
2/3/09
'Will you take an Apprentice?'
1/28/09
A known Meteor Iron Blade - from 1600!
1/27/09
Charcoal to Bar in Colonial Furnaces
1/22/09
2009 Course Dates Posted
1/21/09
From Mars to the Viking Age...
1/19/09
Graham House - Front Door 'Grill'
1/17/09
Revision with 2008 Smelting Overview
1/16/09
Squidoo - 'lens' on the Econo Norse Smelter
1/13/09
Tentative Course Dates - 2009
1/10/09
Applied Knowledge - Quenching
1/9/08
Weapons VS Armour - an Ancient story...
1/8/09
Images of Quad State Smelting Demo
1/6/09
21st Cee - Clootie Tree
9/13/08
GRAVE GOODS
9/7/08
Glass Bead Making at Bonfield
9/3/08
Hey - I * AM * one of those people...
8/28/08
GRAVE GOODS - Opening!
8/27/08
What ever happened to... (Braun McAsh)
8/26/08
Ad Mail from the Conservatives
8/23/08
‘Vikings’ building boat on Northern Peninsula
8/22/08
Dianne Heron : 1945 - 2008
8/14/08
Acid Etching ??
8/2/08
What Happened to OUTLANDER...
7/31/08
Iron Smelting with Jake Keen
7/29/08
'T' Shaped Broadaxe - New details
7/22/08
Forging Broadaxe Video
7/18/08
Ship Tools - Adze / Broadaxe
7/18/08
Norse Woodworking Axes
7/16/08
Using Sources - Norse Ship Tools
7/11/08
Carbon and the Forge
7/7/08
the Aristotle Furnace Demonstration
7/3/08
ERROR CORRECTION - Ore Analog Composition
6/25/08
Report on June 08 Smelt
6/24/08
Meteors in Forge and History
6/21/08
June 08 - On Slag Balances
6/20/08
DARC Spring Smelt - Draft Report
6/16/08
Ores and Furnaces in 'the Colonies'
6/13/08
Spring Smelt - June 14
6/12/08
Heltborg Experimental Notes Available
6/10/08
Museums in Denmark
6/6/08
Photography in Museums
6/5/08
Tranemo Team Bellows
6/2/08
Viking Ships at Roskilde
5/31/08
Norse Welding Flux?
5/28/08
DeMystifying Layered Steels
5/27/08
'Espelund' Two Stage Process - Overview
5/25/08
OVERVIEW - Iron Smelting at Heltborg
5/24/08
Tents at Ribe Viking Centre
5/13/08
Viking Age Ship Building Tools
5/12/08
Iron Smelting Seminar in Thy 2008 - IMAGES
5/8/08
Danish Bronze Age Site
5/6/08
ROSKILDE - Shots around town
4/25/08
ROSKILDE - About Town...
4/24/08
ROSKILDE - The Viking Ship Museum
4/23/08
Travelogue 1A - Staying in Roskilde
4/22/08
DEMARK Research Trip
4/20/08
April 13 Smelt - Overview
4/18/08
Biting off more than you can chew?
4/10/08
'Econo Norse in a Can'
4/9/08
FLASH - Smelt on Sunday April 13
4/7/08
Iron Smelting Seminar in Thy 2008 - Schedule
4/7/08
SMELTFEST 08 - Overview with images
4/3/08
April Fool's - Again
4/2/08
Hanging at the Sauders
4/1/08
SMELTFEST 08 - Experiment Notes
3/31/08
Air Volumes - Smeltfest 08
3/26/08
What the forecast says: Tonight..Snow at times heavy...
3/25/08
Overview - SMELTFEST 08
3/25/08
SMELTFEST 08
3/13/08
Iron Smelt Movie Test
3/13/08
DARC DIRT ONE - draft notes
3/10/08
Bead Bellows Reconstruction
3/8/08
Caught between a Grant and a Hard Place
3/7/08
Grave Goods - First Artist Selection
3/7/08
ONGOING - notes on what is happening
3/4/08
Getting Free (??) Money 1
2/24/08
Viking Iron in DENMARK
2/20/08
NEW and Revised!
2/9/08
Raining Against E-bay
2/5/08
Caught in the web (again)
2/4/08
Bog Ore Crush Test
2/1/08
From the Real World
1/29/08
From the Real World
1/29/08
Bellows Reonstruction 3
1/28/08
Last week...
1/26/08
Bellows Reconstruction 2
1/25/08
Testing Dark Ages AIR
1/24/08
On Tylecote - 'A little Learning...
1/14/08
Impact of Viking Age Weapons
1/12/08
2008 Courses?
1/7/08
Modern Skills applied to Ancient Craft?
1/5/08
Bellows and Nails ??
1/4/08
Ritual and Meteors
1/3/08
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
On the Sutton Hoo Sword
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Pattern Welding Samples
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Iron from Celtic to Early Medieval
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Left or Right Hand?
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Now with ISBN
Friday, March 16, 2007
Experimental Iron Smelting Disk Released
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Comments on the heat treating posting.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Viking Age SWORDS - part 3 - HEAT TREATING
Monday, March 05, 2007
Historic Interpreter versus Re-enactor
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Knowledge or Widsom?
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Knowledge or Widsom?
Monday, February 19, 2007
Norse Weapons - who has what?
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Viking Age SWORDS - part 2, ALLOYS
Friday, February 16, 2007
On Vikng Age SWORDS - Design
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Making a Norse Cauldron?
Monday, February 05, 2007
Norse Hammers?
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Blade Surfaces - Viking Age
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Knives from the Viking Age
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Knives from the Viking Age
Saturday, January 13, 2007
On Trough Forges...
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Blacksmith Equipment 1775 - 1812
Monday, January 01, 2007
Comments - Iron Raven
Sunday, December 31, 2006
'Outlander' - Fan SIte
Friday, December 29, 2006
On Copy - Who Holds the Rights
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
2007 - TENTATIVE dates...
Friday, December 15, 2006
(Re:Comment) On Custom Work...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
'Career' as Artisan Blacksmith?
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
on Runes...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Minden Ore Goo - Loki Smelt
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Lectures in Peterborough This Week
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Gilling West Sword Replica # 2
Monday, November 13, 2006
Westward Viking - Dr Birgitta Wallace
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
'Redemption' Smelt - 11/07/06
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Early Iron 3 - Smelt Two to Norse Anvil!
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Blower Rates
Friday, October 20, 2006
'Loki' Smelter - part 2
Thursday, October 19, 2006
'Loki' Smelter at Early Iron
Monday, October 16, 2006
Viking Age Cauldron Hanger
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Outlander - Chain with Shackles
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Early Iron 3 - this Weekend!
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Oseberg Tripod Replica
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Just WHO spilt the beans? (Outlander)
Saturday, September 23, 2006
'Outlander' - Viking Age Cookware
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
the Vikings Return!
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Viking Age Smelt - September 2
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
On Viking Age KNIVES
Sunday, August 27, 2006
"Outlander' - Norse film objects
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Norse Meat Spit - Period Fluxes?
Friday, August 18, 2006
Where is He??
Friday, August 18, 2006
Considering a Knife
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Reforging Iron in Pictish Scotland - Number Two
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Left in the Dust on the Internet Superhighway
Friday, July 28, 2006
"Reforging Iron in Pictish Scotland 850-1050AD
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Celtic Winds
Monday, July 24, 2006
Lebanon
Monday, July 24, 2006
Pattern Welded Sgian Dubh
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Norse / Saxon fighting axe
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Replica of the Gilling West Sword
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Defining the Smith (part 3)
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
On Wrought Iron (part 2)
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Defining the Artist Blacksmith (part 1)
Friday, June 23, 2006
'What they Carried' - On Norse Tents
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Ring Pins...
Monday, June 12, 2006
June 10 Smelt Draft Report
Friday, June 09, 2006
June 10 Iron Smelt
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Bloom to Pattern Weld Question
Friday, June 02, 2006
June 1 - Courses
Friday, June 02, 2006
Thoughts on the Origins of Pattern Welding
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
New Smelting Area!
Friday, May 26, 2006
COURSES - update
Friday, May 26, 2006
Coins and Coin Dies
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Forges - What is is worth?
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Tripods in the Viking Age
Friday, May 12, 2006
What things Cost...
Monday, May 08, 2006
On Safety Eyewear...
Monday, May 01, 2006
Charcoal in smelting - 'Size does too count'
Friday, April 28, 2006
Teens as Students?
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Computer Confusion / New Links
Monday, April 24, 2006
Some Iron links
Friday, April 21, 2006
Some 'Bloom to Bar' Links
Friday, April 21, 2006
First Bloom to Bar (older post)
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Blooms On Hand
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Compacting Blooms
Friday, April 14, 2006
Note on May Courses
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Caught in the web...
Monday, April 03, 2006
Warping the Web
Thursday, March 30, 2006
IRON CORRECTION
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Adventures in Early Iron...
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
...but its only the kindling
Monday, March 27, 2006
Starting the Fire...