We're coming back again in mister Lukas workshop. This time the door is already open like already expecting us to come, so we just come inside after say greetings.
"Yooo…Lukas, we bring your leather. You can start working on them"
"Hahaha, if chief Harvard himself put his hand on this production, it always going smooth. If myself who ask the leather from Matius that need times to haggle with them over the goods"
"Hahaha, oh right, I forget to show you something. Lukas, look at this"
Chief Harvard take a coal from his bag and show it to Lukas, who accept it with a curious look
"Chief, what is this? This is not ores right?"
"No no no, according to master Ikki, this thing called coal, and can make fire better than firewood"
Lukas' eyes widened when hearing chief Harvard explanation, he looking at us with disbelief eyes
"Master Ikki, is that true? Chief, you found this when you go to the sea?"
"Yes Lukas, we found so many interesting things when we going there. That's why I order you to make a lot of saddles so we can bring many people to go there and open a new settlement"
"That's right mister Lukas, you can try to burn it on your furnace and see how it's burn"
"Woohoo….that's interesting. I'm eager to follow chief to that place. Chief, you still have more of this coal? I want to test it"
"Sure, here. You can have it all"
Chief Harvard handed his remaining coal to Lukas, who accepts it gleefully. When looking at Lukas workshop, suddenly I remember something I want to make.
"Mister Lukas, can I ask a little iron ingot and borrow your workshop for a moment?"
"Sure, how big that iron master Ikki want?"
"Not too big, just as long as my palm and as wide as a spoon will do"
"Oh I have much iron like that, master Ikki want to temper it? Let me heating that using this coal as testing"
"Thank you mister Lukas, I will trouble you then"
Lukas start put the iron that I needed in the furnace and put the coal as the fire source in the furnace. Doesn't need a long time before the iron become red and ready to temper. With the hammer and anvil from the workshop, I start to temper the iron. Thanks to my father teaching, I can do this tempering easily. Lukas watching me tempers the iron with an amazed look. After finish tempering, the iron that I temper already change into thin shape iron with a sharp edge on one side. I ask if mister Lukas have a whetstone and he immediately gives that to me.
"Master Ikki, you know how to make ironworks?"
"Ah yes, my father teach me how to do that"
"Your father is a blacksmith too?"
"Yes, he's a blacksmith"
"No wonder, your tempering skill is good. I can hear the sound from your hit when the hammering iron bar is steady and made in equal power. That's just like a master blacksmith"
"Thank you, mister Lukas"
With the whetstone, I'm sharpening the edge and make it shining under the sunlight. After watching the edge have a sharp straight line from the root to the tip, I smile because my work is done and good.
"Master Ikki, what is that tiny knife used for? Are you going to use that for cooking?"
Lukas can't hold his curiosity and ask me what the usage of this little knife that I just made.
"No, mister Lukas, this knife is not for cooking. This is used to removed hair from our body"
After that, I show him how to use this knife by using it to shave my beard that starts to grow on my chin. I do it slowly because there's no shaving cream here, and I don't know how sharp this shaving knife that I just made is. I can feel the sharp edge in this knife running along my chin and cutting my beard. After a few slashes, I can feel the beard in my chin have been removed mostly. I ask a piece of wood and carved a box to keep this shaving knife and make a hilt for that.
"Oooh! It's so practical! Why I never thought before? Chief, If I remove my beard and mustache, do you think I'll become as handsome as master Ikki?"
"Hahaha, Lukas, even if you have no beard and mustache, your skin still dark because every day you get smoked from your furnace. But you can try, who knows it works for some female. And if you could make one for me too"
Chief Harvard shamelessly asks Lukas to made him a shaving knife too like what I just made. I just smile wryly hearing this two adult conversation.
"That's no problem, but I want this coal more. So you must take me to that place when you going there again"
"Okay, I promise you that"
I look at Mister Lukas face. He's indeed have blackened skin because of smoke from his furnace. Maybe if he uses my soap later, his face can be more bright and clean? I promise myself to give him another piece of soap when I already made it.