Brendon

i know what you mean, but can i change the state its intended.  ie, thats a plate.  but now i want to make a knife.  can i re smelt that piece?

Thanks streetwind, but i still do not get it.  This peice is supposed to be a bronze plate, but its missing to much.  So its usless.  I have the chisel but im not sure how you mean to break it up??

4 hours ago, Silent Shadow said:

You can remelt any non-iron workpiece back into an ingot with no material loss (other than the charcoal) and try to make the item you want again. Iron workpieces are similar but go through the bloomery process again.

Hi, thanks... but i have tried, i have a messed up bronze piece.  point it at the cruicble to re smelt to liquid, does not work.  how do you do this?

Sometimes a mistake is made and a forged bit of metal becomes useless, there seems now way to re-smelt this.

Would be good to re smelt metal, even if there is some loss to the total metal involved.