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OK ! My tent pegs alla romana, are uneven, pock-marqued with hammer marks, but they are tent pegs alla romana (¾" square). The welds of the rings are ugly, but they are welds. A year and a half is a long time away from the forge, in my case, for sure. Lets say that bad stuff is better than no stuff. However I'll have to get better soon, forging something for The Woman, something for my office and a tool or two for the forest. Can't load the pic (size: 685 kb). Believe me the pegs are ugly but they work holding a tarp where I work in our forest.
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Frosty, I did not have clay in the pan. I often touched the pan and found it to be much less hot than I thought it would have become. And when time came to pack up, it cooled down in much less time than I thought it would have. I knew about clay, but I wanted to cut the weight as much as possible. I'll try your suggestion. Does it pack hard enough that it could be taken out of the pan and transported separately ? Do you cover the entire pan ?
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I was surprised at how well you could build a fire to forge weld. Fire bricks permit to have a fire high enough that there is a neutral zone. Like I said, it was the first time I used it and the first time using a rivet forge.
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This forge followed me home a while ago. It sat in the barn for a few years and I finally cleaned it and used it in a hammer in. This is a yearly event held in Dunvegan Ontario. This is where Iit it up for the first time. It came with all original parts. The blower works like a charm. I forged the wing nuts because I have to take the forge apart for transport and it is more difficult to loose them than the 7/16" nuts, you do not need another tool and it was fun to forge. I had to replace one leg as the threads broke when I took the forge apart. It is a Thompson forge. The company was in business from 1906 to 1921 (my dates may be inaccurate). It operated out of Grand Bay New Brunswick. ill
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As much as I can, which means when I think of it, I put drawings and notes in a book. When I have to find these notes, that drawing, I go to the alphabet page with page numbers on the lkast page of the book. This one : In this example, the name of what I am looking for starts with an E, so I go at the lettre E and go down the page numbers read what is in this index starting with an E and on page 29 of this page I read "Étripe chat etc. " On page 29, I find what I was looking for : And if I have to add something, notes of pics, I stick them in the book and on the original page ( page 029 in this case ) I write down the page where I will find addendums. For me this is very flexible and being the way I am, I do not loose these notes
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Maybe was I not patient enough, but after six months or so I quit Etsy. I never got any enquiry let alone a sale. I offered mainly fire pokers, various tripods to hold pots over a fire and reproductions of 17th and 18th century utensils including candle holders. Maybe I was too expensive, and I think I was when I compared my prices with those asked by companies targeting the live history people, but I would rather keep my stuff than give away my working hours. I offered the same material that I sold otherwise. My reproductions have been commissioned, for instance, by a TV series.
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As you can see in the pic, I swaged a shape in order to have a grip. At first I thought of flattening the material, punch holes and rivet wood sides for a handle. And then I multiplied time constraints with the possibility of making a screwdriver that did not look like the screwdrivers I know, and that is what I got. I'll see today, I might have some filing to do and then a wax mixture.
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