Grafvitnir

Ok, I took a picture of my recreation of the Hesselbjerg amulet. All made from 3/8 in. round mild steel. I've been wearing it for about 6 months now.

Rubén

I've made a few now... This were my first attempts at making one:

It was based on Brian Brazeal's method for making shoulders and on this:

All free hand, no fullers or guillotines, except my hammer and anvil (block of mild steel) edges. (that's why it looks so bad )
There's also this other method: http://www.uffes-smedja.nu/hammereng.htm


Hope it helps

Rubén

Just found a place where there are historical videos about many things but they have several about blacksmithing. I specially liked the one filmed in the eastern Sahara where the blacksmiths forge a dagger. Nice little anvil The first link is for the blacksmithing stuff, the second link is for the blacksmith in Sahara.

http://www.iwf.de/iwf/do/mkat/listing.aspx?Action=Schnell&SearchStr=blacksmith

http://www.iwf.de/iwf/do/mkat/details.aspx?GUID=444C47554944009610F294FB2F070027C9B104030103002CF44C860D06000000&Action=Schnell&SearchStr=blacksmith

I hope I linked them correctly and that you like them. In the main website it says they arew removing almost everything by the end of 2010 so I think these are the last days you can see them.

Rubén

Glenn (as usual) is right. I think it was Grant Sarver (Nakedanvil) who gave me the idea to try this a while ago. I found a hand dryer blower and I've been using it for charcoal for a while. It blows a lot of air so I use it as in picture 3 with that end pointing at me so I get all the air and the charcoal gets, still a lot of it.

Hope it helps...

Rubén

Hasluck's "Smiths' Work" has the same chapter as the "Manual of Blacksmithing" on making the portable forge. (I've read both) You can get it here (legal download because of copyright):

http://www.wkfinetools.com/mLibrary/Hasluck/1904-smith%27sWork/1904-SmithsWork-Hasluck.pdf

Chapter IX pg 131. It's detailed but it's not the complete, triple chambered, English round bellows.

Hope it helps!!

Rubén

After many months, I found a reference that answers what I was trying to know:

Harcourt's "Elementary Forge Practice" pgs. 26-27 "Fullers.- ...They are made in a number of sizes depending upon the radius of the circular edge. On a 3/4-inch fuller this radius would be 3/8 inch."

So, what I wanted to know: they are called based on their diameter (a 3/4-inch fuller), not their radiuses (or radii) (3/8 inch radius)

Thanks everyone

Rubén

In addition to Mark Aspery's books, and Brian Brazeals videos, maybe this:

Making tongs with Bill Epps:

Jim Poor's tong making DVD:

Harcourt's elementary forge practice has instructions to make a few different tongs; flat and bolt I think.

http://www.archive.org/details/elementaryforgep00harc

http://www.blksmth.com/tong_article.htm

And somewhere in IForgeIron some drawings on the Poz tongs posted by Grant if I'm not mistaken.

Hope it helps

Rubén

I´ll make a copy/Paste of the original BP1023

"Take two soup spoons of each powder, graphite and Moly, and mix together in a container.

Add liquid soap and mix until it forms a paste.

Transfer this paste to a larger container that will be used to dip and cool the tool.

Add water to make 1 pint of solution. Mix well.

To use the lube, just dip the tool into the solution.

You may want to stir the solution occationally if it starts to settle out.

The solution can be brushed on the tool if that is more convient.

Place a lid on the container for storage. The 4 spoons of powder is enough to make a pint mix of lube solution and will last for a long time."

Hope it helps,

Rubén

Conrad, I like your idea of forging the end of the pipe to reduce it

What fuel do you use? I know using charcoal will do nothing to the pipe; mine has last quite a while without any damage. Coal may take a while; but someone told me that using coke will burn the pipe maybe even in one session. Have you used coke in any of your forges? I haven't tried either coal nor coke so still don't know what will happen. That's why I ask.

Thank you.

Rubén

Yes, I remember Irnsrgn's, it was BP0065. It may come up in other BP's later, or when the old ones are back. (I mean old BP's not Lovecraft's Old Ones) hehe.

Thank you

Rubén

Oh, yes, I remember it. It was presented as a BP here on April 14 2009. Guillotine R-2

The thing is I want to see how the one Mr. Hofi used was made because I remember thinking, "that's clever". The way it was adjusted for different sizes of stock.

Maybe I just have a case of "Blind Pew" (J.L. Borges)

"Lejos del mar
y de la hermosa guerra;
que así el amor
lo que ha perdido alaba."

"Far away from sea
and beautiful war;
that's the way Love
what has lost, praises."

(Free translation by myself because the ones I found in Google didn't meant the same as in Spanish, although I'm not completely happy with mine either.)

Maybe I'm thinking it was better that it was because I can't find it.

Thank you.

Rubén

Yes Glenn, it was in the background of some BP on something else that I don't remember. I saved some of the BP's but can't find the one where he used it for whatever he was doing. I lost some info that I didn't backup... I'm sure that's where it was.

Thank you

Rubén

Hi! I remember I once downloaded a picture of Mr. Uri Hofi's fuller from one of the old BP's. I can't find it so I was wondering if anyone got a picture of it. It looked a little like this one (belonging to Tai Goo) but I remember it was somehow adjustable. At least that is how I remember it.

Thank you very much.

Rubén

Here you can see Alfred Habermann using clay to explain how his hammer is used:

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=qKLSSnm-inA&feature=channel

And here how to forge a horse head on clay also:

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=PhtVYMR5cYI

You are supposed to put the clay in the fridge for a while. I usually use it in the winter... in our hot summer months the fridge thing does not last more than a few minutes.

The video by Brian Brazeal is the best though...

Hope it helps.

Rubén

Frosty, I think you mean this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Build-Centrifugal-1987-publication/dp/0917914600

I don´t know why it´s not listed at Lindsay's...

I don't remember ever seen anything like this here so I'm adding the link for it. Is a charcoal forge with a very different tuyere.

http://mysite.ncnetwork.net/resr7g3w/other_stuff/blacksmithing/blacksmithing.htm

I'll like to know if anyone else have ever seen something like this.

Thank you

Rubén

I have posted these here somewhere. Here they go again

http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/JF/JF_VE/SMALL/04-110.pdf

In this you will find a bellows and a hand cranked blower.

http://www.wkfinetools.com/mLibrary/mLibrary_index.asp

Here you can download Hasluck's "Smith's Work"; in page 140 there ara plans for a blower, right after the plans for the bellows and forge.

http://www.evenfallstudios.com/woodworks_library/woodworks_library.html#Blacksmithing,%20Welding%20and%20Metalwork

Here you may download Richardson's "Practical Blacksmithing" Vol I and vol. II have plans for blowers. Pg. 162 in vol II and pg. 205 for vol. I.

All legal download because of copyright and all that...

Hope it helps

Rubén

About two years ago I found this somewhere... I don't remember if it was in the old BP's or somewhere else but I saved a copy for later use. Haven't tried it yet but it may work.

Basically you make a grid with about 1 inch openings, weld it inside a big diameter tube, then use a plunger (or whatever that thing is called) to push and break the charcoal (because it was for breaking charcoal). I don't know if it would work for coke.

The tube has an opening in the bottom side for the crushed fuel to exit. It can be seen in the crusherC.jpg

Hope it helps.

Rubén

You may find Richardson's vol.2 here:
http://www.evenfallstudios.com/woodworks_library/woodworks_library.html#Blacksmithing,%20Welding%20and%20Metalwork

I believe that Vol. 2 of M.T. Richardson's Practical Blacksmithing chapter IX is called "Emery Wheels and Grindstones" and has a method for mounting and making the machine to use them.

Here is the link to download in case you don't have it:
http://www.evenfallstudios.com/woodworks_library/woodworks_library.html#Blacksmithing,%20Welding%20and%20Metalwork

Hope it helps.

Rubén

I usually use a program called Irfanview. http://www.irfanview.com/ It's freeware. You can do a lot of things with it. Under "options" use "Resample/Resize".

Hope it helps.

Rubén

Hi,

This was in my great grandmother´s house. It was the common type of "aldaba" as it was called in the old houses in Monterrey where I live. It must have been made in the late 1800's or the early 1900's(when her house was constructed). I remember seen them on every door in all the houses from that era. The house no longer exists but I kept this one because I wanted to try copying it someday. I took more pictures to show how the spiral is always in the same area where the lock (missing) was.

By the way, this is what I think a hasp is.

Hope it helps

Rubén

This is my first post on something I made, instead of just asking questions.

This weekend at last I was able to light my charcoal forge after many months of blacksmithing idleness. I wanted to try several things so I thought of 1)practicing Brian Brazeal's method of drawing down using two shoulders at opposite angles (his thread on making rings), 2)doing as Mark Aspery says, an exercise in upsetting and it really is an upsetting exercise, and 3)making something I'll like and wear(copying the design borntoride posted about the Thor's Hammer he made). I used 3/8 round stock mild steel.

So this is what I made. I took pictures of all the failures I had. I put them in the order I made them. From left to right: The first deformed, the second Ok, except for the finish(olive oil at black heat), I didn't liked it nor the way I made the eye; #3 developed a crack in the neck area, #4 deformed and you can see a piece of the parent stock with the shoulders forged, #5 almost there but another crack at the neck, and finally #6 with a different eye design and without any finish except vinegar and wire brush to remove the scale.

So in the end two keepers but a lot of practice. I also got to try my new rounding hammer (never tried one before) It was very good for drawing down using Brian's method.

Just wanted to share something...

Thank you

Rubén

Thank you all for your answers.

Thanks for the pictures Tri Moon Forge

Rubén

Maybe this could help:

http://www.dagorhir.com/gear/content/weapon_tutorials/aggelgorod_sword.php

Just making it a bit larger.

This group has been around for like 30 years, maybe more. So they have some experience on making non-injury (I don't know if this is really a correct word) weapons.

Hope it helps.

Rubén