Having used cast iron frying skillets both large and small, cornbread and scone skillets, griddles, Dutch ovens and ladles in the kitchen for the past 38 years being here is a good thing. I was looking for an answer about sand blasting CI and innocently stumbled into this kettle of fish. As luck would have it, I was allowed to come into the fold by simply providing a mostly truthful set of answers to inquiries by the leaders. So here I am! All 86 years of me.