"Gary Coffman" wrote in message
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But what's the difference in the weight? You lose some metal to
scale with each heat. That does mount up over many heats.

All the metal I removed finishing it piles up too. I collected about half
the filings I made and there's gotta be 5 or 10 grams there. The blade
weighs something like 80 grams, I forget... All I know is, long as I'm
forging, I ain't stopping and letting that thing cool down just to check its
weight within a half a gram :^)

Tim

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