Subject: fruits and colors

From: [email-masked] (Roger Olsen)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 14:26:04 -0800

>the forge which has soaked up a good orange heat by now and just lay it on
>the face of my anvil,
>all for now, roger
>
>
>Hello Roger

>Orange heat!!! what kind of blacksmithing do you use?

>Niko

hello niko,
 the orange heat i am refering to has nothing to do with fruit - apples and
oranges or of my labors, but refers to the color of my 3/4 by 4 plate
steel, don't have a clue as to what the color orange is in swedish, but it
is somewhere above red even hotter than salmon but not yet yellow, anyway
it doesn't really matter, on really cold mornings i just get it good and
hot and lay it on the face of my anvil, after 10 or fifteen minutes i no
longer have to worry about a cold anvil sucking my heat.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:59:12 -0500

>longer have to worry about a cold anvil sucking my heat.

Niko,
    In this country (USA) many of us use the "fruit spectrum" for
identifying various heats, (altho I see Roger slipped into the "fish
spectrum" used mostly in the great northwest). The metalurgists among us (I
know your out there) can probably expain this better than I. The fruit
spectrum ranges from cherry red, to orange heat, on up to lemon yellow.
After this you are rapidly approaching the scrap spectrum.
    Did I miss any?
    What do you use to describe the colors of heat in Sweden Niko?
                                                        Bob