The ironware I made shines

Chapter 107 Glorious Years
"Dad, I'm back."

"Just come back."

Ge Jianguo absent-mindedly replied that some of the negative effects of irritability and lack of concentration in the early days of quitting smoking all appeared. This is still very difficult for a veteran smoker of 30 to [-] years. If there is no external help, he may fall short.

The father and son just sat in the lobby and watched TV. The West Guizhou Variety Channel rebroadcasted "Supernatural Blacksmith".

While watching "The Extraordinary Blacksmith", Ge Xiaohua suddenly said: "Dad, do you still remember the glorious days of blacksmithing when you were young?"

Ge Jianguo thumped in his heart, and many images of blacksmithing when he was young flashed into his mind, some were hard work, and some were happy. I lost it, the older I was, the more I missed it, and I fell into a state of trance without knowing it.

"Xiaohua, let's strike iron together when we have time..."

"Really? Dad, if you want to forge iron, you can do it together during weekends and vacations, and I plan to invite you to be a special resident guest in the second issue of "Extraordinary Blacksmith."

"On the show?"

Ge Jianguo thought about it and said, "Okay, but I have to report to my superiors."

As a civil servant, it is normal to say hello in advance for such things, but generally there is no major problem. After all, he is just a small bureau chief of a county, not a high-ranking official. There is nothing wrong with appearing on these programs promoting traditional crafts OK.

Ge Xiaohua did not expect it to go so smoothly. It is estimated that Ge Jianguo himself wanted to continue to forge iron. During the painful stage of quitting smoking, if he could transfer something he was interested in, the probability of success would be much higher.

On the weekend, Ge Jianguo came to Ge's blacksmith shop as scheduled. Seeing everything familiar and unfamiliar, Ge Jianguo didn't know what to do.

"Dad, you control the heat, and I'll beat it." Ge Xiaohua intends to entrust the physical work to himself, and then entrusts Ge Jianguo to be responsible for the matters that require experience, similar to the last time I saw Yamamoto Yuji and his team's coordinated forging in RB .

To enter the state, the only way to do it is to forge it. Ge Xiaohua directly forged an ordinary long knife this time, which is also what Ge Jianguo is best at.

The high-carbon steel was burning red in the furnace. Seeing the color of the flame change, Ge Jianguo instinctively pulled out the iron block and shouted: "Smash!"

After Ge Xiaohua received the order, he swung the sledgehammer and went down with a single blow. The iron flowers spread all over the sky, and it was too late for ordinary people to dodge, but Ge Jianguo smiled, smiling from the bottom of his heart. This is why Ge Jianguo quit smoking and drinking. , I was so happy for the first time, and my dependence on nicotine disappeared immediately. Ge Jianguo, who was excited, concentrated on controlling the temperature. When Ge Xiaohua was beating almost, he folded and continued to heat. In the exchange, I talked about a lot of my own experience in making long knives, which can be regarded as a real inheritance, which has benefited Ge Xiaohua a lot.

When the heat was reached, Ge Jianguo continued to pull it out and let Ge Xiaohua forge it by hand. After repeated cycles, he spent today in forging.

At night, Ge Xiaohua was exhausted and had to complete the next work tomorrow. This long sword is a war sword from the Ming Dynasty, and the effect is good.

"Xiaohua, although our cooperation has not reached a very tacit understanding today, we have mastered the rhythm and will continue tomorrow!" Ge Jianguo seemed very excited. His control is comparable to that of Yuji Yamamoto.

"Okay." His father, Ge Jianguo, was also tired after a day of ironing, so he rested and slept in his hometown. Early in the morning, Ge Jianguo got up and called Ge Xiaohua, which was a bit like a supervisor.

"Wake up, the day's plan is in the morning!" Ge Jianguo's mental state has undergone earth-shaking changes from before, and after regaining his blacksmithing skills, those bad habits have been forgotten.

Ge Xiaohua got up in a hurry and started a day of forging. With Ge Jianguo's joining, Ge Xiaohua's daily forging was particularly vigorous, and he could harvest new ideas every time. The value of ingenuity was constantly improving, and there were faint signs of breakthrough.

Heating, beating, folding, continuing to heat and beating, repeating the cycle. At noon, Ge Jianguo saw that it was almost done, the knife blank was formed, the initial forging was completed, and then the quenching process.

Ge Jianguo also used paper to wrap the edge of the blade, and then smeared it with clay and ash, which is exactly the same as the way Ge Xiaohua saw Yuji Yamamoto quenching in RB.

"Dad, is this our ancestral quenching method?"

"Yes, from generation to generation, I will tell you about the ingredients..."

Ge Xiaohua doesn't know whether this quenching method is used first by RB or China, but since there are similarities, it shows that the exchanges between the two countries are still very close.

Ge Xiaohua knew the secret recipe for tempering handed down by Ge's ancestors, but he didn't know the secret recipe for RB, but it is estimated that the difference is not too big.

After Ge Jianguo smeared the clay and ashes, he put them in the stove to heat up. He observed the temperature of the flame, and kept his hand close to the stove from time to time to sense the surrounding temperature. There was no need to close the windows or doors at all.

"The time has come!" The blade was burned red, and the flame turned from red to blue, reaching about 800 degrees for optimal quenching. Ge Jianguo decisively pulled out the blade blank and put it in the water tank for quenching.

"Hey!" The knife blank cooled rapidly, the high-temperature austenite zone reached the martensite low-temperature zone, and the quenching was declared complete!
"Dad, why do we all quench with water? Instead of oil? When we were in the factory, we used special quenching reagents and oil for quenching, and the effect seemed to be better." Water is used for quenching, even when he was in RB, Yamamoto Yuji transported the spring water they called "Holy Spring" from a long distance for quenching.

"Water quenching cools down quickly, and the resulting hardness is also strong. Oil quenching is very slow, and the hardness cannot meet the requirements."

"Then the benefits of oil quenching?"

"It can keep the steel from deforming, so it is used more for mechanical alloy quenching."

"I see."

Although Ge Xiaohua is a major in engineering materials, he is not as strong as Ge Jianguo in terms of practical experience. He is an old blacksmith with a serious background and has inherited the skills inherited from Ge's blacksmith shop for hundreds of years. Ge Xiaohua only learned a little when he was a child, so It's good for the two of them to forge together on weekends and study this kind of professional knowledge, which is extremely beneficial to Ge Xiaohua's technical improvement.

The next step is the polishing and grinding stage. Ge Xiaohua used a belt machine, an angle grinder, a knife sharpener and other machines to assist, and it took half a day to complete the polishing. Then it was the production of the handle and scabbard. The follow-up tedious matters were all done by Ge Xiaohua finished.

It took another two days, and the Ming Dynasty long knife jointly created by Ge Xiaohua and Ge Jianguo was completed.

Because it was the first cooperation, this long knife just burst into white light, with the attributes of exquisite +2 and sharp +3. Ge Xiaohua gave it to Ge Jianguo for collection. This is also the first time that Ge Jianguo has truly He carefully crafted the Ming Dynasty long sword, and he personally controlled the key craftsmanship. Every time he saw this Ming Dynasty long sword, he felt the glorious years of blacksmithing.

(End of this chapter)