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There is a big blue on ebay also
$3000
Ga just above the FL line

One of my barrels doesnt have a lid so I put a sheet of tin and a few rocks on it to keep it tight. I also cool the sides of the barrel with water to help put out the fire. Once it is almost out but a few smoldering embers I transfer to a barrel that has no holes and a tight fitting removeable lid. I have to use a screw driver to pry up the lid to let in air once it is cold. One time I was piling wood on the pick up endgate next to this cold barrel the day after the last firing and I heard some metal creaking. This went on for some time when I looked at the barrel it was trying to collaps the sides frm the vacum in the barrel.
Roger in Minnesota

UMBA Online has a video showing 3 hours of Clay forging with a tire hammer and a video of about 6 hours of Bob Haverstock working with two differrent fly press
cost of the videos are $7 for the first and $5 each for the rest in same order and you never have to return them. This deal is for US delivery only. They do ship to other countries but postage is extra. They have 150 differrent videos

I hope to be there wed night till sunday after the demos.
Bringing the UMBA video library.
Look for a 6 foot guy with a bicycle bunny ears and a large anvil

Upper Midwest Blacksmiths have at least 3 videos of making fry pans. RD31 Doug Hendrickson, RD99 Don Asbee and RD100 Jymm Hoffman. Cost is $5 for the disk and $2 shipping. They are avalible at UMBA Online then click on library.

www.umbaonline has several DVD-Rs dealing with the making of damascus.
cost for a 5 1/2 hour DVD is $5 plus shipping

Easiest way to make a mosaiac pattern is to use pure nickel sheet and powdered metal inside a can

roger in Minnesota

The Upper Midwest Blacksmith Assoc (UMBA Online) has a DVD of him doing one at ABANA 06 conference
He was using a nazel hammer and I thnk air chisel to sink the bowel in a plywood frame. Cost of DVD is $7. It is titled RD92 and has several other demos on it. Total length is 6 hours and 20 min

Havent tried it to etch blades but use HTH PH minus to remove scale from steel and a differrent bucket of same stuff to clean copper.
Get it at Walmart $10 for 10# dry. Mix a capfull to 5 gal of hot water for quicker cleaning.
It is found in the pool supply area.
sodium bysalfate (SP)
I think I got Tom Latane" switched to it. He used to buy $90 a gal vinagzar

I have soe made from old tin snips not aviation snips.
Take out the bolt
forge the jaws
put bolt back in
close or leave the handles open

Maintaining the library is not bad
The group owns two duplicators that can make 5 copies at a time.
When one DVD gets down to 0 or 1 I plug in the machine and make copies for and hour or so.
I have started editing the new footage which can be time consuming.
The library sells over 1000 disks a year.
I have fun going to about 10 conferences a year
I dont get paid am just a volunteer which helps to keep the cost down.
I send out orders priority mail because it is easy and they provide the box.
Helps to keep the small town post office open. Population under 500
As Frosty said I may not do a lot of blacksmithing but I have watched a whole lot of it. Filmed too many that will never smith again. For a while it seemed like you did not want me to film as withn a few months they were dead but that has passed. No one has died for a few years after me filming.
Just to make sure last weekend I taught a copper class and did not film it.

Not much has followed me home lately other than when I went east to watch Clifton Ralph I did get a nice Aermore Model T exhaust whistle for 2 hundred pennies.
Am down to only 7 power hammers and 4 treadle hammers.
Have most of the parts to build a tire hammer but no time.
1912 pattend date on the ends

Conferences and Hammer-in
I film each event I have been at since 1988
To see were I have been and who I watched go to UMBA Online then click the library.
Have crossed paths with frosty a couple of times.
He was in my neck of the woods last month but I had another comitment.
781

Tall to Bob Bergman at Postville blacksmith or at Old World Anvils
I believe he sets his o steel plate. Or Ralph Sproul who hangs out at Forgemagic

I made my last tantern 6 sided with a cross cut out of each pannel
I did n=mine out of scrap about 18 ga.
Made one pattern and copied it so there were 6 sides
Glued this to the sheet and pierced the material with chisels and a treadle hammer making sure not to cut all the way through antil at least the 3rd or 4th pass with the chisel.
A chiesel cut leaves a beveled edge that should be cleaned up with files but gives the hand made look not cut out vith a plasma or laser.
I scored on the inside a line with the chisel for a place to bend and left a tab to rivet the finished piece together.
If 6 sided each bend will be 60 degrees
Roger in Minnesota, usa