This may actually be a really dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway. How
do you tell iron from steel? I have a drawknife, date unknown, obviously
handforged, stamped with an illegible maker's mark, blade made of
ferrous metal. I don't know how to tell whether it is iron or steel.
Often you can tell just from the context, but I don't always have that.
Must I spend the rest of my career typing out the words "ferrous metal"
when a four- or five-letter word would suffice?

Thanks,

 

Anne T. Lane

Anne T. Lane

Collections Manager

704.568.1774 x110 phone

704.566.1817 fax

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The Charlotte Museum of History and Hezekiah Alexander Homesite

Where  History Has a Home

3500 Shamrock Drive

Charlotte, NC  28215-3214

www.charlottemuseum.org

Featured Exhibits:

ToyTime: Larger-than-Life Folk Toys, September 8, 2007 to March 9, 2008

Flags Across The Nation: Quilts of Patriotism, September 11 to November
11, 2007

Charlotte Neighborhoods: Brooklyn to Biddleville, Now through January
25, 2008

 


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