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Thanks Frosty, heres the wording ----BOORUN THE PELICAN CAME DOWN FROM THE NORTH WEST ALONG WIRNWIRNDOOK (THE MACALISTER RIVER). HE CROSSED DARTYOWAN (THE LATROBE RIVER) NEAR THIS SPOT AND MADE HIS CANOE, WHICH HE THEN CARRIED ON HIS HEAD AS HE WALKED TO YOWUNG (PORT ALBERT). AS HE WALKED HE HEARD A STRANGE TAPPING SOUND. WHEN HE GOT TO THE INLET BOORUN PUT DOWN HIS CANOE AND WAS SURPRISED TO FIND A WOMAN INSIDE IT. SHE WAS TUK THE MUSK DUCK. HE WAS VERY HAPPY TO SEE HER AND SHE BECAME HIS WIFE. BOORUN AND TUK ARE THE MOTHER AND FATHER TOTEM OF THE GUNAIKURNAI PEOPLE.
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It's at the swing bridge in longford near Sale gippsland Vic on Gunaikurnai Land.
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Just thought I'd put this up. I worked on this with my wife and a group of indigenous australians. It's corten steel on a 316 stainless steel dious which sits on a concrete moulding. The lettering spells out a dreamtime creation story of the local people of the area, in 430 stainless steel.
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love to see some pics iron dwarf if you have any ?
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These bowls are wonerful. I would assume the material was just 3mm mild steel ? and using the bottom of a gas bottle as the form, very insperational
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My try at making some jewelry for my wife.
littlemilligan replied to ANGRYANVIL's topic in Blacksmithing, General Discussion
buss bars=toxic, you learn something new every time you look at this site. on the same topic, don't burn the waste oil out of electrical transformer box's for the same reason. Awesome bracelet Nomadmad, now for the scaled down version for the finger ? -
Real Blacksmiths Don't Wear Gloves?
littlemilligan replied to DigitalMechanic's topic in Blacksmithing, General Discussion
All I can say is after 30 odd years , working with hot metal, I can still do this to my self, WEAR GLOVES. -
Thanks Frosty, so it looks like scale is what I've been thinking were "cracks" . I think I've had both, but the idea that not cleaning off before drawing out has caused what I thought were delamination ( and was in fact the opposite ). It's true that I was only banging the hot metal on the floor on my way to the hammer to let any loose scale drop off and not brushing it off. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Thanks Rashelle, all advise from past hands on experience is good advise, and I'm realising that what I have chosen to work with here is tricky in anybodys book, which makes me feel better about my blind attempts so far. Woohoo, it seems I'm able to just post stuff straight out now, thanks folks, promise I won,t say bad words :rolleyes:
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Thanks very much EricJergensen for your explanation, I was having trouble with the soaking thing. ThomasPowers, yes I can see now that working it till the colour is almost gone is to cold, I will not go below bright orange (very short working time, got it ).E.F. Thumann, yes you are right I did use the "s" word in my second post, but I was being moderated before that, and you can see the word was let through anyway, but yes I take the point that "g" rating is key.(still dont realy know why I'm on it though). And thanks heaps to you all for the feed back, it's very much appreciated and will post here after the next attempt.
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Sorry folks, I could'nt find the post after I posted it ? I thought it was a non ferrous metal and so posted it there and then could'nt find it, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing in my case, therefore posted the question twice. Okay, now I have it, Phil, yes I'm drawing it down in the square then rounding it off, and as soon as the colour is gone out of it I'm back to the forge (oil forge) . It only breaks down as I reach the last third of the taper and even then I only notice it when I'm cleaning it up ( so then it's out with the welder/grinder ) I'm reading something MOONY sent me about working temps and "soaking" what ever that means, and so will try again when I've come up to speed a bit. P.S. I can't show the actual cracks as I've fixed them up, but the photos were to show what I've been trying to achieve. Can anyone tell me what this is about ? You have been placed on moderator queue. This means that all content you submit will need to be approved by a moderator before it will be shown
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Little Giant Sow Block tooling
littlemilligan replied to Adair's topic in Power Hammers, Treadle Hammers, Olivers
I'm totally rapt in this thread, the last two video's, wow -
Little Giant Sow Block tooling
littlemilligan replied to Adair's topic in Power Hammers, Treadle Hammers, Olivers
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Little Giant Sow Block tooling
littlemilligan replied to Adair's topic in Power Hammers, Treadle Hammers, Olivers
Hi Adair, I'm so glad that you have brought this up as I would like to know how to make dishes out of plate up to 5mm thick. I tried with apposing forms in a press without any luck. I have seen it done with a foot operated treadle hammer at MOONY'S place. It has opposing forms fitted to it.