Max Mulholland - Tetnum

i have bean given a big peice of 1 inch O1 plate is there a reliveitively painless way to weld/solder it to the face of a hf 55# aso

agreed with above foundation first or bad things will happen more often than not

i have a freind who teaches at a mixed martial arts studio an they had a student who on his first day picked up a bow staff swng it around to show off and ended up wacking himself across the back of the head and neck and he was out for a few hours

now think if that was a metal staff he would be gone:o(well if he could swing it)

i am proly near the top of the kid smith range at 15

is it galvnised?

one every 6 inch in two sides on two rails for 80+ pickets

how would you put a square hole in 1 in square tubeing

i found a picture of the origonal fence that came with an old victoran house and have drawn plans for it

thank you for the refrence

i was just wondering what style of iron work would have gone with this period
about 1840 to 1860

they are aluminuem so extra kaowool atleast or just dont use it

i second that
zinc is likely one of the most harmful things you will confront in day to day activitys
be safe and keep it out of the fire

hmmmmmmmmm
blueprint please!!!
thats juts cool

handled punch of some sort?

cool make some thing or some tooling for it have fun be safe

no they are mad out of cast steel witch has a lower carbon content than cast iron so they are not as britle

thanks for all the help
i finaly got one to stick and it bends with the metal when vice tested the problem seamed to be the metal thank you

thanks for all the help every one i will give it another try today

goat man where do you get those they look sturdy i think i just might need to try this one

if i may borrow one from glen
"If someone questions your standards, they are not high enough. " -glen;)
they questioned the pillow blocks so this plan dosent sound like over kill

rich- fuel is coal
thanks glen
thomas- i have tried that but it dosent seem to make a diffrence
dave- scarfingthe bar is rounding 2 corners on one side of a square bar so the flux gets in all the way through the weld and is expelled during the weld

im not trying to make domascus or any thing just to weld
correct me if i am wrong but i beleve the process i beleve is
heat the metal
scarf, brush, fold ,flux
next heat
poke with a pointed round bar to see if it sticks in the forge
pull it out, quick burch sweep ,few light hits, flux
next heat
somoth out the weld
20 mule team for flux

i cant get the metal to stick and it is rather annoying
any help would be greatly apprecated

thats really good looking gate

"The 3 styles available include the common 8-1/2" x 10" rectangle, a 8-1/2" x 14" rectangle for knife makers, and a 6" round fire"

i beleve that it is important to show others how we work so they can learn and improve upon the idea and learn from mistakes made by others sothey ans forge safely

i was sorta thrown at this demo by my grandmother on our vacation up north she had called the blacksmith at the county musem and asked if i could spend a day working with him.
i goth there and and had fun watching what he was doing and seeing how he ran a demo then he let me use the forge for a while and it was a leap up from my setup with a hofi hammer and non aso anvil and a SOFA firepot
something tells me i forgot some of the talking part of the job

o well it was a learning experiance and a learned a lot and made some useful tools for the quilter

it was fun and i would do it again

sorry gota unload pics form camera ill get them up later today