Jump to content
I Forge Iron

Dogsoldat

Members
  • Posts

    827
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Dogsoldat

  1. There's half a dozen different tong making videos out there that are just gold.  Foremost of them is Brian Brazeal's video.  Poking around in IFI  have it running in the background.  You'll be surprised  how many times you glance up and watch this or that again and something new just clicks.  Sounds like you have the number one trait to make a good smith and that's stubborness  :) you haven't given up yet.  Some of the first tongs I made I use A36 for the jaws and welded (arc) the rebar on for reigns.

     

  2. I think pillar files and checkering files are the same thing.  Found this page and the different numbers equate to lines per inch http://www.ottofrei.com/Store/Glardon-Vallorbe-Precision-Files/Glardon-Vallorbe-Hand-Checkering-Precision-Files-LP1166.html

    so a cut 0 would be a 30 lines per inch file which is what Monte Kennedy uses to cut teeth in his checking tools.  So  just need a few spare coins and I can order something from a few sites...

    Thanks for the offer Stockmaker.  may just take you up on it.

     

     

  3. Been googling a bunch of stuff lately.  Brain is turning to mush trying to keep it all straight.  :) 
    Gotta bug someone else and the info you need pops right up next time your looking...  unless murphy strikes

    Bought a set of Dem-bart checking tools for doing the woodworking end of things and off to a decent start. 

    Trying to figure out if pillar files are the same as a checkering file...  haven't found a good enough picture to properly compare.  anyways that's enough moaning for now

     

  4. Anyone have a Canadian source for checkering files?  I know MidwayUsa and Brownells has them. Playing with a rifle stock right now and may need a checkering file to make a tool or two to correct a few errant lines.  I'm sure that somewhere in my travels I have had my hands on one.  but just where and when...  could have been when we helped Grandma move and was somewhere in the basement with an uncles tools that were divvied out...  at any rate need to make a jointing tool to adjust a few spots

    DSC02925.thumb.JPG.4cc330296f736b7d1ae56ce8b1a4e04d.JPGDSC02930.thumb.JPG.3a30bc9221f114a798de97952dea2752.JPG

  5. Start making a few socketed arrow heads and it's just a matter of scale from there.  Hammer and anvil and a long piece of stock,  spread the end into a nice even fan  and roll into a cone.  A set of scrolling tongs do a nice job of holding the socket end while forging the pointy bit.  A very basic set of tools are needed.   Not all sockets are welded,  more of a bragging point than a difference in function.

     

×
×
  • Create New...