Kenny O

Steve's Welding & Blacksmithing here in Crescent City Ca
HI Kenny O -- COOL Curvy Form Thing
Like Mike Hr said if you get this way stop by !
I am part of the Jefferson Smiths of northern Ca & southern Or
theirs quite a few smiths in you're area :<) we get together every so often
@ someones shop and play with fire you're welcome to come to one of the meets !
there is also some bigger meets coming up this year @ Weaverville in Marchhttp://www.iforgeiron.com/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif
more than 75 smith attend its a not to miss 3 days of hands on smithing & fun
send me an EM IronWolfforge13@Yahoo.com hope to meet you someday
I also love to Tig weld stuff of any metal type :<)
We need to have another meet @ the shop here soon, after the first of the year people
keep bugging me LOL :<) smiths from here - Grants Pass/Medford/Eureka/Rouge River will
more than likey attend its a one day meet sat or sun depending on best day for most of the smiths send me an EM#

Well done Don! Thank you for the play by play, and a Happy New Year to you as well!

Nice beak Grant, thanks for sharing.

Kenny,
Great work , Keep it up. Here is a link to an Australian sculptor who does similar work. Greg's work is generally as big as a tree often larger. Maybe you will find some inspiration from his work. It's most likely copywrghted but the inspiration you get won't be.
Good Luck.

www.gregjohnssculpture.com/

I thought this was a great resource for help with scrap identification, I do realize that buying the proper steel is the correct way to go.


http://www.dtic.mil/...pdf/416021h.pdf

This is some good stuff right here! I assumed fishlips was a sign of poor technique, not a too small hammer.
I was thinking of a treadle hammer, what about the Grasshopper? I guess I could move that question to the hammer section.

much appreciation for all the very valuable information!:)

I can relate, I have been pondering the same issue. The fishmouth is aggravating as well. I' ve been telling my wife she is going to be my striker, she's ready.

Kenny O, You might want to start with mild steel first, instead of S7. This tong style only requires mild steel as long as you forge a strong structure.

I watched your clay forging video Brian, wonderful. I tried the clay forging, it is much quieter, and when it warms up it is quite useless as a teaching medium.
Well after I did the clay a dozen or so times..." I'm ready" well the junk yard steel was S7 or something so... many heats later.
The tong blank started to crack just after the boss transition to the handle. It was , is a great exercise. I am going to do the horse head in clay for awhile.
I have lots of round clay stock in the fridge, now I need to get a play-doe factory extruder.

I'm really proud of those clay tong blanks

Hello
I get that these would go inside ,I assume, a cylinder, tube, etc... The material would be at a 90 degree to your hand, so... I don't think as a tong it is very ergonomic, or it is not a tong?
They press outward as you grip the handles. I may not use them for there destined function, but at least I have some.

Thanks for the help

Tome out? please help me name this one, just for fun!

The part with the hole looks like the top plate of the anvil of my treadle hammer. The other part looks like the flat die that fits into the plate on my anvil. I also have interchangeable dies for the head. But then, it could be something else.

These were all attached like like eggs in a row, The "flat spot", is where the sprue, gate, or runner was connected to the next ball.

To be spinning around in 1000 (+-) degree mill for days at a time,They must be a high grade steel. The used ones where small and not usually very round.
Here's a photo of my stash




The sprue end


I an going to attempt to make a spring swedge, cut one in half an texture the two hemispheres, I will use the HF horizontal saw.
My intention is to make one of these....
http://www.iforgeiro...turing-reptile/

I don't have a power hammer though :(

Hello, , any and all steel ball jokes aside , I have acquired some balls from a job I did in Clarksdale Az.
They where for a huge rotating mill that was very hot, a rock smasher for a"C-ment factree"

About a 4 to 5 inch diameter

Any clue to a standard type of steel?

and thank you very much

Very cool!! That must have been some good work. Now go sell it to a college for $2,500 and buy yourself a new jet-ski/plasma cutter/bandsaw/toy

That's how I grew my business.

Is that why you moved to the left coast,closer to Hollywood?

Thanks for the compliments.
I have been wearing wooden shoes in my for over 20 years (not the same pair though.) I had thrown out something about them previously,not sure where they are in the archives. I prefer them over any work shoe, work boot or walking shoe I have ever tried. These are made in Holland. I used to be able to get some from a factory in Holland, Michigan until they closed a few years back. ....

....The last pair cost me $38.00 at a reenactment. I am not sure if I saved the dealer's card.

Thanks for the shoe information, I will certainly research the possibility of gettin' a pair.


Just the other day I was reading through your article in the Hammers Blow about your forge and burner set up...But that's another topic..

(Vol. 17, #1, Winter 2009) for those interested.

Thanks for sharing, and for your commitment to historical accuracy . Very informative, and entertaining as well.
My back kills me after a day on concrete floors, do those shoes alleviate that issue? If so, I must make a pair.

(The Math Dude scares me)

Steve, as far as "What else..." I am done, I have a problem with not knowing when to QUIT.



Fe-Wood, it is all mild steel, 1/8 " and 16 ga. Most of it was tig welded and ground. Here's a phone photo of the shell.


Thanks for the comments, it helps, I will post more when they happen

Thanks K.O.

I have a friend who teaches welded sculpture at the community college, I assisted with teaching the welding aspects and got to use there equipment, So; no that is not my acorn table, unfortunately.

Hi Kenny, I like the shapes that keep you awake at night. South Oregon? I'm in KFalls, get in touch with me if you're cruising through.

Here's another shape that I had to purge from my mind.

I had a snappy comeback on tap about the whole rectilinear stuff thing but this IS a family forum so use your imagination and pretend I said it.

Frosty the Lucky.

I have been goofing around with some curvy stuff and some rectilinear stuff, The taper on the curvy one was the only part I had used the forge and anvil for.

thanks for the mini course in case hardening:)
for some reason I thought cr had more carbon.