I have read the posts on creating an outstanding Hamon on a blade by Master Smiths John White, Shawn Mc Intryre, and Brion Tomberlin and all recommend using Satanite as part of the process. But where do you order it from? You know how it is. You hear about a product or a tool and then try to find where you can get it from. I asked Brion and was pleasantly surprised to find that you can purchase Satanite from Refractories-West, Inc located in Pueblo, Colorado. Sally and I were in Colorado Springs yesterday so we drove north to Pueblo and I visited their very large facility. I purchased a 50 pound bag of Satanite for $55. plus tax. The staff was very helpful and knowlegeable and they have a very large inventory of other products that our members might be interested in.

In addition to maintaining a large inventory of refractory brick, castables, plastics, insulation materials, mortars and anchors they also operate a very experienced cast shop at their Pueblo facility which can fabricate refractory shapes and reline furnaces, combustion chambers etc. Shapes as small as a few pounds to over 20 ton monolithic linings have been completed in their shop.

Their website is http://refwest.com/index.html and their address is 33163 Braniff Avenue, Pueblo, Colorado 81001 with telephone 719-544-9043.