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Central Minnesota Blacksmiths x-mas party/monthly hammer-in. Great food and a good 3 hours of forming demonstrations. Approx. 28 members attended. -
This is the wood base for the Hawkeye Helve I'm re-building. All stained and varished 3 coats. Ready to re-assemble after varnish is good and cured. -
This is the return scroll after installation. Upon finishing installations, all the heads of the lags bolts were touched up with flat black paint. Another job finished. :-) -
This is the finished stairway railing. -
This is the area that the grab rail got welded to the lower stairway railing. The welding was done w/ TIG so no sparks and such would damage the stair treads. Then touch-up on the paint job. -
Final install on the grab rail. -
This shows the fixture I made to make the grab rail. I duplicated the step,landing and post measurement points so I could form fit the railcap to make sure it fit onsite. -
This is showing the test fitting of a grab rail that gets welded to the lower stairway handrailing -
Test fitting for grab rail on the top of stairway railing -
Another view of the return scroll that gets mounted to a 4"x4" wood post -
This is the return for a stairway railing, it mounts on 2 adjacent sides of a 4"x4" wood post -
This shows the fixture I made for forming/fitting to match the angle of an end scroll for a stairway railing. The 3-1/2" x 3-1/2" tube represents the wood post it will be fastened to upon installation. The scroll will be cut on this side of the vertical tube and a mounting plate welded to it so it can be lag bolted into the post. -
This is a detail of the lower scroll end during the making for a stairway railing -
Steel Horses made from RR track made by "SWE_Karl" -
Detail picture of handrailing leaves -
Stairway railing as it sits on the floor of my garage before installation at the clients. -
detail of rosettes -
first sections installed - the lower stairway railing is in the works now -
start of the lower stairway section - trial fit -
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The Central Minnesota Blacksmiths have been having very good turnouts in my opinion compared to others I've talked to: We usually have at least 20-25 plus people show up every month at our hammer-ins. The main thing is that there should always be a live demo with a fire in the forge and metal being pounded to demonstrate some form of process or making of something, as that's what people come for. We have a very good group and fortunately have good demonstrations. Watching is always better than reading or telling someone how to do something - mainly for the ones that have never seen or done it before. Even if is is something simple - people expect to "see" something being done. - Jk -Member CMB
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This is another view of the finished spring mount. The raised part was hammered into the end of a thick walled pipe to the depth of the original bracket, then finish hammered on the end of the anvil horn, all other bends and edges were formed in the vise and on the anvil by hand. -
This is the finished spring mount ready for welding in place on the car at a service garage. The metal used was 1/8" hot rolled plate. -
the start of a forged lower rear spring mount for a Chrysler New Yorker