2Tim215

Love it.

Nice.

LOL - took me while. Me, I just stitch them together - works evrytime

Thanks all. Made from 40 layers of 1080 and 15N20 - It's a really small axe as per clients specs. 130mm long Blade 50mm wide eye area 35mm wide x 35mm thick at outside of eye Made for hunting - we call it a meat axe

Thanks all - plain handles it is then.

Just a little belt axe I forged out yesterday

My apologies, wasn't discussing religion, just the understanding of how furnaces etc worked in "olden" times as the term "biblical" would be a no no now. Again, apologies if you found my comment offensive - was just stating my view concerning the time period I originally meant.

That all depends on your view - Creationist or evolutionist - creationists don't hold to the 4.5 billion year "THEORY" - you know that one that changes every time they make a new discovery. :D

A set of low layer 15N20 and 1080 I am busy with. Still trying to decide if I am going to carve the handles. Thanks for looking Tim

I would think that a lot of fuel would be needed to fire kilns/forges and furnaces like this one. And everyone wonders why most of north Africa is desert LOL.

Nice!

Sometimes I go off track and the wierdest questions tickle my brain. Like this one: What kind of technology was available in biblical times for a furnace to be hot enough to kill those who threw Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego into the fire never mind big enough to fit three people. I know how much fuel it takes to heat up my small damascus forge to welding temp using veg oil and I know how much coal it takes to keep a small forge fire going at welding temp for a reasonable length of time. I have also worked in a foundry with big electric furnaces and pots for smelting and even though they are extremely hot you can get quite close without dying. We know this was not a once off arrangment coz it says: 19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. I think sometimes we have this very naive and primitive view of how people lived in biblical times. I have sometimes used my forge to give children an impression of the heat mentioned in this passage and I am quite sure that my estimation is way off. So how hot do you think it was and how and what do you think they used to get it that hot? Remembering that this was an existing furnace used IMHO fairly often.

Nice work. Did you do the fold over and forge weld method?

Nice.

Agreed. Think I'm going to stick to tried and tested for now and wait for you more intelligent folk to come up with the right way and then like my friends the chinese I'll copy it LOL

Thanks Geoff.

Thanks Geoff, but I'm quite sure what a "tup or OTOH" is?

This is what I had in mind.

Thanks Peter - my anvil will be 250kgs plus a 1mtr x 1 mtr 20mm base plate and all the weight of everything else. Didn't draw all the extras for tooling - no time. Frosty - it's funny but I have also been thinking of a shock type system for the last four months. Was thinking of a coil spring made up to fit within a tube that is the same size as the hammer, there would have to be central guide shaft running through a plate welded in the middle of the tube and another coil spring above that would have another plate that fits snugly in the tube and then a bolt on the shaft that could adjust the tension. Don't know if that makes sense - will try and do a drawing.

Ahhh. Now youv'e really got me thinking.

Thanks Frosty. Will also be using a spindle hub, just couldn't draw it that well. Also agree on the crank plate arrangement and your scotch yoke thing got me surfing and thinking and you have just messed up all my plans coz' now I just have to give it a go.

Nice!

Let me be the first to say WOW. Absolutly beautiful.

Thanks for the input all. Below is what I think it all leads to?

Thanks for the explanation on rebound - makes sense now.