Bryce Masuk

I havent heard of anyone doing this but you might be able to buy a big hunk of metal and hardface it with the correct stick rods or flux core wire

I just couldnt turn these down

Looks great to me good job did you do all the cuts with a chisel? Its not easy, you need to use coal or shorten up the heat with water if your using propane I see some people using a zip wheel to cut horns and such

Well since I asked them for 220 in the begining they told me its somewhat too late to change my mind, Why they asked me whether it was the right motor or not I dont know, Anyways they took the time to find out from the engineering department and found out the same answer I found, It really doesnt matter 220 times + 7 percent is 236 volts so its probley fine to run it at 240 if i am getting a true 240 either way either way it really doesnt matter in the end Im glad the hammer is on its way,

I will give bc hydro a call and see what they say, the problem is the hammer can take 1-3 months to make its way to canada and still need to make the base for it, I still havent found the right location my friend has a crane truck and will move it anywhere within reason for 100 bucks so it may be in my garge for a month before i get the right place

I told them I need 60hz I know that much, I am going to move my shop into a real industrial bay so I will have true 3 phase unless I find the right place that will allow me to run a powerhammer that isnt a long ways out of my way, (I may move the shop to downtown vancouver as I know there is always work down there and the shop I work for now has decided to give me jobs to take home, I will struggle this is certain my hope is that i can get someone to be an industrial roomate) so it seems either will work I may opt for the 220 because of voltage drop and from i have investigated the difference of 20 volts may reduce the output quite a bit steve h what are you typically importing when your getting your hammers they told me they are normally sending 240 volt motors, they also could have been giving me one of those trick questions when the 220 motor costs more money hoping I would just say yes (who knows I dont)

more than a good deal at a buck a pound

Looks good john, I may try to make a bowl in the near future typically I dont care what a bowl looks like from the inside because thats where the cereal goes ;)

Looks like a good deal to me, congrats

I attempted to contact my electrician friend earlier today but he didnt pick up, anyang wants to know whether I want a 220 or 240 3 phase motor, I thought I needed a 220 motor however though searching I have found the 240 volt motor seems to be more common. I am unsure of what I need now I am leaning towards the 240 volt motor. electrical is something I dont know much about but at least I know that much

Man my posts are rambling, I guess this is what happens when the right side of your braid controls your life, I have some big pieces of flat bar and angle kicking around I am planinng to finish this tomorrow since i dont have to work I am definately not as good as Uri Hofi But I dont give up so at least I have hope the positioning isnt great in the picture its made from several pieces that i cut with a zip wheel I made a few other pieces for fun to see what the scrolls looks like looks like tomorrow will be a solid day of testing and adjusting if it isnt right

When did you work with Alfred habermann? forging is forging but doing everything by hand limits you in someways for producing many pickets and such unless you had a good team of strikers which would eventually cost more than the hammer in a couple months I would think, but the reality is it probley forces you to work on smaller things in finer ways such as some of your animal heads or use designs that lend themselves to allowing you to produce things without needing to move huge quanitys of metal resulting in the desired effect, You do some great work you remind me of style and idea's of mark asprey in someways, It shows your knowledge in the forming of the metal, you can tell you knew far before the metal was touched exactly what was going to happen. I am constantly trying to improve my tools it takes a number of years in order to know exactly what you need and exactly how to strike it, I am not there yet All of it stems from the fundamentals the basic idea's of how to punch properly how to split, slit and drift how to properly draw out metal square octagon and round, I know all too often I lose focus and forget these fundamental rules these idea's that form the base of the craft. Eventally I wont need to think about them I know that they will become automatic if i continue on the path of constant improvement.

I rember seeing that awhile ago and not making it because I lacked a piece of plate I guess it was just good practice, I started making the jig but I dont have the piece of plate I will have to see what I can come up with, I guess for the most part this is all made from small pieces not one large one like how i was making my jig, I will cut the end off and bend and cut the end of and so on untill i have a complete jig now i need to figure out what i will do with this one piece that i made because i cant match the other piece to it lol I dont really care about production, finding something I cant do gives me something to fight for right now i dont need to make a profit in the future this will make more of a difference however I will be more practiced and also have made many more jigs by then i can imagine I have made plenty of small scrolls and armrests for chairs and such getting them 95% the same entirely by hand eyeballing where the bends are I noticed the counterbend part as well is using a jig, I should also make something similar I do eveything by hand and eyeball I draw on the floor with kids sidewalk chalk (pink panther pink!) measure with a single wire and try and match it up I guess everyone uses jigs and this is why there is no discrepency in there work? this makes all the scroll work seem less interesting to me but none the less I guess i chose to do everything the hard way which is just my personality type

It was 1/2 inch i was using I know i could have done it cold but I forged both ends already and the heat was on so i used it,

I decided to make a large mirror frame in order to make the pieces i wanted I needed a 14ft long piece of roundbar, the scroll is about 19 inches diameter in order to bend it I had to drag the anvil outside because my shop walls and roof are too close to bend a 14ft bar as I have found. I didnt have a large enough scroll jig so I figured I would wing it, I need to make 2 matching sides the one side I am "happy" with will need a bit of truing up in the end but they will both need to be matched up more before I spend time on that, this is the one that is supposed to match the other one things I have found in my adventures are. The larger the scroll the larger it is to manage and prevent spining on the heavy side in your hands this causes problems when bending and heating because it will move on you or when you are bending you will move it on the wrong axis and your scroll wont be flat and when the scroll is this big its hard to get it to sit right on the anvil or to get 2 forks on it for concentrated bending. its really hard to heat it evenly in my forge so you need to know where you want to heat and focus on that one area, once you heat it up and let it cool now you have some spots that are much softer than others, once you get kinks in it its really hard to make it smooth again perhaps in the future I should be making jigs instead but for now this is good but frusterating practice the reality is in making the 2 scrolls I have probley 12 or more hours in and about 4 more or maybe more to get the other one close maybe someone can enlighten me or at least encourage my efforts :)