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10-04-2008, 06:33 PM
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 One of todays many projects.
Wel I made my shop's door pull today. It's two RR spikes forge welded together. I also cut the heads off of them.... The finials are leaf styled. Nailed in with hand-forged nails. Reverse twist with slight S curve going down the length. Picture with the white blank...my sister got in it...she's 5, so i took it out. Im shy about my face being on the itnernet, let alone my younger brothers or my sisters who had just looked at the pull. I also made some various tools that I need for around the shop....3 hot chisels, nail header, and some other little things. My problem is that I was able to get real good heads by putting the nail in vise, and making the head. Now, with my nail header, the darn nail just bends even under light blows. I don't know what I am doing wrong with my hammering. Please let me know what I can do to fix that. It's square punched, with a counter punch on underside. Made by following the design in The Backyard Blacksmith. It's annealed, and I made ten nails with it. Well, tried to, they all bent. Thanks for any help im given in advance. The nail header was my brother's project today. I think he did a really good job with it. Picture 1: My weld wasn't complete on the end, and it cracked a little bit as a result of it. However the reverse twist flows very nicely, and I was able to incorporate the crack into the pull. Picture 2: Leaf finial. Picture 3: Complete Pull Sorry about image quality, we are without a camera right now, so I have to use my phone. Need to get a camera. Lol. Last edited by m_brothers; 10-04-2008 at 06:34 PM. Reason: Pictures forgotten.  |
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10-04-2008, 11:14 PM
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Nice job. It is an original, and it's your work. That makes it special!! As for the slight crack in the forge weld, I get that too, sometimes. Someday I hope to master that. On the nail header, is it tapered from the front, or from the bottom side? I screwed up and made my first one with the taper from the front. Every nail bent and stuck. Now it works better, tapered from the bottom side.
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10-04-2008, 11:26 PM
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Tapered from the bottom of the hole, that's what the counter-punch was fore, to fix all of that. But I'll see if I didn't do it completely tomorrow. If not, then I'll fix it and see what it does then.
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10-05-2008, 02:09 AM
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Nice pull John. A good way to straighten things like twists with sharp detail without damaging it is with a wooden mallet on a wood block. Done hot of course. Frosty
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10-05-2008, 09:59 AM
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Okay, thanks Jerry, I'll make a note of that.
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10-05-2008, 05:29 PM
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My pleasure John. Be careful to not use wood that gives off noxious smoke, it's gonna smoke, flame and generally do cool stuff when you lay hot steel on the wood and smack it. Heck, if it were available here I'd pick wood that smells good. Another benefit is the smoke is an extremely reducing environment and a lot of the scale will disappear in the process. Frosty
__________________ Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read. "Groucho Marx" |
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10-05-2008, 09:25 PM
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Oh that's a really cool thing, the smoke and scale. I have just been given a wooden mallet, so I will make good use of it. Thank-You to anonymous.
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10-06-2008, 06:03 PM
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Looks Real Good John. Pics of the tools? Please LOL
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10-06-2008, 07:29 PM
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What tools chris??? Sorry, don't know which ones your talking about.
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