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  1. Razzputin
    Hmmm well I was told by my mentor and 30 years of experience blade/sword smith that I don't need to. What I posted previously is basically what he said to me.
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    What I will be doing is I am buying a piece of spring steel 14mm thick, 80mm wide and 900mm long, this I will then cut to the basic shape with a cutting torch and from there fore out the cutting edge and spikes as seen. I will also be adding a fuller (Blood channel) down the center so as to reduce the weight a little and also to provide more rigidity to the blade. Seeing as it is already spring steel I will take care not to burn it. that being said I will not need to harden it afterwards. If it was out of mild steel I would case harden it.
  3. Razzputin
    All that I was doing that day was the safety my uncle taught me, he studied welding as an art in college and he welds in slops ha ha. He said as long as I am in jeans, long sleeves and good boots with a good helmet ill be fine.
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    Thanks Woody very sound advice and I live by it almost daily. Akad the idea for the decorative skull and horns is to cast them. I am nowhere near skilled enough to forge them. Only one question on the casting though, what would the best way of securing it to the handle be? If I cast it in iron or even have it made in a CNC machine (only if all else fails) then I would be able to weld that to the handle. Otherwise if I made it out of bronze or similar metal how would I attach it?
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    That is very good advice Akad and I will be sure to use as much of it as possible. The preliminary planning has been going since last year november for this piece. I have been looking up all the different designs of the blade and hilt drawing and redrawing them. I have even reproduced it twice in TurboCAD so that I know my way around it. It has almost become burned into my memory. The 3/4 pieces you speak of I will be doing shortly but before that I am going to be making lots of examples of the horns seperatly just to get the feeling of them. In terms of the welding idea do you sugest I make them seperatly and weld them on? As for an assistant the guy(from now on my patron) who is commisioning the piece wants to help me do it, he will be doing most of the heavy duty work of flattening the spring steel final while I am focusing more on the rine detail and the casting pieces. The reason I don't want to cast the blade as you have sugested Sam is becaus I dont have the facilities on my property to do such large work. I have a friend who lets me use his shop for smaller pieces and thats where I will be doing the rams head and the two skulls on the crossguard. The rest of the hilt I can do in wood as thats what my patron has requested. On experience of smaller work, its not as though I reject the idea, I am embrasing it whole heartedly. Every spare moment I have I am at my forge experimenting, practicing and learning. All of the knowledge on this site and from all of you wonderfull people who have shared it make my dream a reality. Thank you all for your comments and crits they mean a lot to me.
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    Thank you bentiron for your advice, that will really come in handy. Would it not be possible just to draw out the spikes a little and then spend a while filing them to proper shape? Those two up top I plan on spliting like you would split like a fork with three prongs, the two outside for the two blades and the center one for the tang. Maillemaker I have done the casting process many times so it will not be new to me and as a matter of fact that is exactly how I was going to make all those decorative little bits on the handle. I know that it would be madness tp even try forge all that decoration. Im an idiot in terms of project choice but im not that stupid. I have actually spent hours and days planning this, researching how others have done it (and yes others have done it go take a look google is a wondefull place) and in general been preparing myself for this task. At the moment I am typing this up on my phone as my pc got blown up by lightning not 20 mins ago. So replys and posts will be few and far between till I get my pc fixed.
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    Sorry bout the bad language, didn't know that was such an offensive word. If i wasn't passionate why did I just spend almost all of my day at my forge when I could and it wasn't raining? Just because I have decided on a very difficult project doesn't necessarily mean ill fail? If Einstein didn't press on he would have achieved nothing. I am also interested as to your troll comment? Is it aimed at me? And yes of course I have been reading the knife making forums, almost backwards I am not an idiot who fires up a jet engine without reading and re-reading the manual many times, I might be the idiot though who tries it and succeeds. I have been to a few knife making seminars as well. This is my passion and it will stay that way. I am learning the basics at the same time as tackling this project. If I fail I will learn more than a few lessons as to why. If I succeed? Well then its another thing I can add to my life's achievements and a goal passed. I asked for constructive advice and if all I am going to get is nay sayers then I will refrain from keeping this post going. I will however bring it back to life once I have failed or passed.
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    The colour is not something I am going for, just the shape. That is just a rendered image in high definition. I dont see why forging it would be such a problem. there are many horned blades that have been forged.
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    Their reasoning is probably that they feel jealous of and threatened by your skill. This is an art and I have been working with metal for almost 3 years now, I started with chainmaile and when I did I also had the school cool gang going at me for being a nerd. That was until I started making more money than them out of doing it. These days I see that almost all of the people I encounter are intrigued and approving of this craft. You just had an unfortunate run in with someone who wanted to prove his manliness more than yours.
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    This made my day, especially your description of chasing it around the shop. Its good that you "borrowed" it and put it to better use.
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    Thanks man, my reason behind it is I enjoy it and if someone wants to pay me let them but I don't demand payment. Its my hobby not my job and I will keep it that way.
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    Well here goes nothing and I expect many people cutting the idea down but oh well I have always been know to do things this way. I am looking for as many tips and tricks as possible to enable me to forge out a replica of frostmourne a sword origionaly made as a single handed blade but a friend of mine wants it to be a two handed monster. Here is a picture of the blade itself. the dimensions he wants for this blade are as such. Width 110mmm just after the last two little horns Witdh 150mm between largest side horns Length 1095mm thickness of blade 14mm handle 400mm from end of handle to beggining of blade Guard 400mm from end of skull to end of skull I will be using a length of 14mm by 1000mm by 800mm spring steel as the original billet Pretty XXXX big at a total of 1500mm almost as tall as me. I know what I am asking is ridiculous but who ever got anywhere the easy way. With this project and all of my others I will be learning many of the skills I will need. I always seem to over do things but its the way I learn. So please any suggestions, tips, tricks or comments are welcome. I am especially in need of some commentary on the tang and hilt of the sword as the blade I can do without to much trouble. Thank you all for your help it will be much apreciated.
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    well the lady we did it for was on her last cash so we did it for her for only material cost. then the place we did it at offered us free dinner for one of their dinner evenings as it was a restuaruant owned by a friend of hers who was going to let her stay there. Also she is going to do something in the future for us im sure. I will start the search imeadiatly for those gloves and I thank you for your advice!
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    Client almost fell over with joy, we did the job at material cost only. The sunburn one I know about and 90% of the time my sleeves are down also I am blessed with a thicker and darker skin than my friends, he got slightly burnt from about 30 mins of arc flash whereas I was welding for little over 2 hours. Are the gloves really neciscary I feel more in control without them? Back is fine as I live on a farm and am use to the pose as well as lifting things like that. I will be one of those crooked old men like you see in cartoons one day.
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    So here are a few snaps of me and a few fiends at work making a security gate for the first time. This is the gate. Doing some grinding. Me welding. Is this a bad position to be in or is it OK to be above the weld? My friend acting like a caveman. The gate is up. Welding in the hinges. Well this was a real learning experience for me. My biggest learning curve was to have a striking plate so as to heat up the rod before the actual weld so as not to mar the final product as well as to make a perfect weld the first time and not one of those blobby spotty ones. Tell me what you think, any advice is welcome as I am a beginner.
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    http://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/31152-vice-leg-support/#entry318476 That's my post on mounting my vice and a short discussion of mounting a vice before it.
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    That's not me, that's my mentor. Thanks for the advice on the coal, this was just a test to see if I was getting the correct temperatures. From now on I will be using the slots.
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    I was the 10,000 indentured servants ha ha. Im just beginning to build my evil empire, its starting with my forge.
  19. Razzputin
    This is the progression of my shop and the complete view of it now. The beginning. clearing ground and placing post vice. Moving anvil. Final placement of forge and ready to use. *Note the triangular shape of the layout, one step to the vice from the anvil and 1.5 steps to the forge from the anvil. The anvil is facing the two doorways so no-one can sneak up on me and there is a source of water nearby. The horn of the anvil is facing out of the triangle so as not to get in the way and take off my leg when coming back from the forge and the floor is level and made of dirt so as to lessen the risk of fire. What do you all think?
  20. Razzputin
    You all wanted to see my first firing here it is. http://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/31218-forge-finished-and-first-firingwarning-lots-of-pics/
  21. Razzputin
    Well here it is. ITS FINISHED! Ha ha yay. In the photo is my mentor Riaan Bredenkamp who has taught me all I know now and still is teaching me. Also Is the first firing of the forge. It works like a beauty.
  22. Razzputin
    Ha ha ha ha nice one, when my bro suggested the Egyptian way I said the same thing to him.
  23. Razzputin
    Yea I have moved onto galvanized steel spring washers as my jump rings, they are amazingly strong and don't really mark skin, their colour changes but that's about it. Their only limitation is their thickness, this reduces the amount of weaves you can do, At the moment I make Japanese, English 4-1 and byzantine and a few other self invented things but I cant do Dragon scale and other oddities of the maile world. Making the links myself is just to tedious. If you look at the gallery at the last few posts, the chainmaile shirt is mine, tell me what you think of it.
  24. Razzputin
    This is truly inspirational to us younger metal workers, it gives us something to aspire to and also to look up to. You sir are one of the masters that make this worthwhile and I hope that one day I will be producing work to a standard similar to your own.
  25. Razzputin
    I second this idea and this is what I will do. Thank you MLMartin.
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