Chapter 46 Refining the Gloves(1/2)
A few days later, Su Yang went to the backyard and walked into a house in the backyard.
This is a room that is not too big. There is a large stove on the inside of the room and a bellows next to it.
A little further away, there is a iron mat with a shape of "已" and a pool called a quenching pool.
Hammers, pliers and other tools of various types are placed regularly in the room.
This is the renovated blacksmith workshop.
“It’s finally remodeled.”
Su Yang looked at the various tools in the room with satisfaction. The Blacksmith Workshop had been renovated and he could finally start tailoring boxing gloves for himself.
"Go to the account to withdraw the money and buy a thousand kilograms of iron ore and come back."
Called a few Heihu helpers and Su Yang ordered.
When refining weapons, ordinary weapon refiners will directly purchase ready-made iron for refining weapons, but the first step for real weapon refining weapons is often to refine iron.
They would buy iron ore and personally smel out iron ore.
This is the first step to widen the gap between the master of weapon refining and the key step in deciding the quality of the weapon refined.
The reason why this step is so critical is that weapon masters often have exclusive iron smelting methods. The iron they refined themselves is more purified than the iron on the market and has stronger performance in all aspects.
After lunch, Su Yang came to the Blacksmith's Workshop, and the thousand kilograms of iron ore he had bought had been sent.
He began to smelte.
Different iron ores have different iron purity, and the proportion of materials such as carbon that need to be added during iron smelting will be different.
This requires experience. Su Yang, who inherited Yin Zongyu's weapon refining skills, did not lack experience. He started to smelve iron with iron ore at a glance.
It took a day to refine two hundred kilograms of iron with this thousand kilograms of iron ore. The first step of refining the weapon was considered to be completed.
"Second step forging."
Su Yang immediately began the second step of forging of the weapon refining.
Forging, simply put, burn the iron to a certain temperature and fold and beat it.
This is a step to further remove impurities from iron, make the iron composition even, become denser and harder.
This step seems simple, but in fact it is extremely test of experience.
The control of temperature and the direction of the thrust will greatly affect the final quality of the iron.
If the temperature is too high, the iron will crack and break. If the temperature is too low, the folded iron will not be glued, and the internal layering will be scrapped.
The force direction of the beater will affect whether the iron component can be evenly distributed and whether it can become dense and hard.
Ding, ding, ding!
Burn the iron red, Su Yang quickly took out the iron, placed the iron on the iron pier, and knocked it quickly and rhythmically.
Mars splashed, blooming like fireworks, splashing everywhere.
These are all burnt iron filings, with extremely high temperatures. They fell on Su Yang's clothes and pants, and holes were burned one after another in Su Yang's clothes and pants.
Fortunately, he knew that this would be the result, so he changed into cheap clothes in advance.
If the clothes of a few taels of silver were broken, he would probably feel so distressed that he vomited blood.
In the end, after repeated forgings of two hundred kilograms of iron, only less than thirty kilograms remained.
Extremely huge losses, with a yield of less than 20%.
However, less than 20% of the iron is worth much higher than the previous two hundred kilograms of iron.
After repeated tempering, the remaining less than 30 kilograms of iron are dense and uniform, with extremely strong hardness and toughness, and are the finest among iron, which is often called refined iron.
Su Yang looked through one piece after another.
I saw that these pieces of fine iron had clear natural patterns on the surface, like beautiful works of art, which made him feel like he couldn't let go of it.
"Yes, most of them have reached the level of thousands of forgings, but only a few of them are the level of hundreds of forgings!"
After checking these fine irons, Su Yang was very satisfied. The first time he forged them, he actually produced so many thousand-forged fine irons.
The iron after forging is divided into ten forging, hundreds forging, and thousands forging according to its quality. Among them, thousands forging is the highest quality fine iron, and ten forging is the worst quality fine iron.
If you can't even reach ten forgings, it will be considered as being broken by forging and cannot be considered as refined iron at all.
The first time he forged, he produced so many of the highest quality fine irons. It can be seen that Yin Zongyu's skill in refining weapons is so high that he underestimated Yin Zongyu, a master of refining weapons who was determined to refine foreign objects.
"The third step is to shape the shape."
Su Yang began the third step in refining weapons.
This step is an extremely critical step. Many weapon refiners are unable to refine fist gloves, so they are blocked by this step.
In this step, the fine iron that was forged before is shaping into the required shape.
The reason why boxing gloves are called the most complex and difficult weapon to refine is that each boxing glove needs to create as many as fifteen parts, and the accuracy requirements for each part are extremely high.
If the accuracy does not meet the requirements, it will eventually be unable to assemble and mold.
Ding, ding, ding!
Su Yang took out a piece of thousand-forged fine iron, put it in the stove and burned it red, then took it out, took out part, and began to shape it with various tools.
This is an extremely test of eye and hand strength, but Su Yang is familiar with Yin Zongyu's weapon refining skills.
One boxing glove parts after another were quickly formed in his hands, and finally thirty boxing glove parts of various shapes were all shaped.
All are made of the best thousand-forged fine iron, with exquisite shapes, like handicrafts.
"The fourth step of quenching."
Su Yang quickly put the red boxing glove parts that were shaping into the quenching pool.
As the white mist rose, the glove parts quickly cooled down, and the cooled glove parts were removed. Su Yang carefully inspected these glove parts.
The purpose of this step of quenching is to test the texture of the glove parts through rapid alternation of hot and cold. If the glove parts have unqualified texture, they will be deformed or even cracked.
All the glove parts were inspected, without deformation or cracks. All glove parts had withstood the test of quenching.
“Step 5 assembly.”
This step is only required for weapons composed of many components like boxing gloves.
Crack, Crack, Crack—
Su Yang quickly clamped the gloves together, and soon the two gloves formed.
After burning red and deforming, the snap position becomes a dead buckle. At this point, the two fist gloves are assembled.
"Step sixth polishing."
Take out tools such as whetstones and Su Yang polishes the surface of the fist gloves carefully.
The black surface disappeared, the snow-white surface appeared, and a pair of silver gloves appeared.
And here, these pair of fists were also refined.
The inside can be lined with some animal soft fur to increase the comfort of the palm, but this is not the job of a weapon refiner, and you need to find a tailor to complete it.
"The grade should reach the thousand-forged level."
Su Yang looked at the pair of fists with satisfaction.
Weapons are divided into ten forged soldiers, hundreds forged soldiers, thousands forged soldiers, and patterned soldiers according to their grades. Among them, patterned soldiers are the highest-level weapons that can be created by weapon refiners.
The pair of fists in his hand were all made of fine iron of thousands of forged levels. Of course, it was not about the level of fine iron of which was made of, or the weapon of which level.
In addition to the material, the process during the refining process is also an important evaluation criterion.
Su Yang, who possesses Yin Zongyu's weapon refining technology, did not have any errors in the refining process, and perfectly brought out the material characteristics of the thousand-forged fine iron, so this should be a thousand-forged weapon.
"A weapon of a thousand-forged level is enough for me to use now."
Su Yang packed the fist gloves in wooden boxes, left the Black Tiger Gang, and went out to find the tailor to line the fur.
The weapons at the Qian Forging level were already very satisfied with him. He had never thought about refining the highest level of patterned weapons, because they could not be refined with ordinary fine iron.
The refining of the pattern soldiers requires special metals and extremely superb weapon refining technology. He has no problem with the refining technology, but he does not have special metals.
"Chief, Young Master Lieyan is here!"
A black tiger helper ran to Su Yang.
"Why is he here?"
Su Yang unexpectedly walked towards the living room.
"Brother Lieyan, why are you free to come to me?"
Now the temporary alliance formed by the Liehuo Gang, the Kuanglong Gang, and the Liu family are busy dividing the territory of the Meng family. He really didn't expect that the other party would come to him if he had time.
"Brother Su, I'm here to ask you for help this time."
Lieyan said.
His relationship with Su Yang has long been quite familiar, so he did not beat around the bush and directly explained his purpose.
To be continued...