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A part group of bulls that I forged last week
http://picasaweb.google.com/hofi.einshemer/BullsThatIForgedLastWeek
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Hi All,
In the link bellow you will find a basket woven by my granddoughter Sahar Hofi. The basket is a combination of steel and twig of palm tree woven together. All the work is desigened, forged and crafted by her
http://picasaweb.google.com/hofi.einshemer/BasketWeavingWithIron
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He used EPOXY to glue the handles !!!!!!!
the one he used was short time set and this one is britle and faling appart after some time.
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The glue that I am useing to hendle the hammer is SIKAFLES 11 FC AND I ONLY GLUE THE HANDLES AND NEVER WEDGE.
I glued already hundreds of hammers in many sizes ans none of them went loos.
the hammer eye is having a duble taperd cone (x) to the middle of the eye 3 degrees.
on the handle on the part that goes into the eye I grind surretions all around that hold the glue much better.
beffor smearing the glue in the eye I clean the eye with thinner to take away any oily remanents for better glueing
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Hello Jesse
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The ''sahinler'' in America is using 10 hp because it is America in Israel and Europe it is no more then 5 hp
and at my smithy too
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My mame was mentioned here several times and I want to clear some points from my point of view.
In my smithy and school I have ALL types of hammers to show my students the veriety of hammers in the smithing world.
There is NO contrediction between the hammer types and one is useing the hammers according to the need.
I forge ALL the types of hammers according the order and the will of my customers .
I myself used the straight pein hammer only once in the last 21 years only because I was asked by one of my student to demo it .the diagonal hammer I NEVER USE because I do not fined a need or a reason to use it. 95 % of my forging and I forge a lot is done with the cross pein hammer and to day or the last 5 years I forge mainly with the cast crosspein hammer because it is the most balanced ergonomic hammer .
I personaly do not like the phrase ''do what is good for you'' this is allways a cover for not learning another way that might be better only bacause one is used to a wrong or inferier way of forging. I KNOW IT IS NOT EASY TO CHANGE.
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SORRY FOR THE DELAY WAS VERY BUSY ON SOME PROJECTS
I am not in the USA and I do not know the local rules !!
at my smithy and school the wales are made from concrete bricks so fire is not a problem
but when I built the ozark school were the walls were made of wood I fabricated another sleeve on the tunnel and in between I GAVE A 1'' layer of kaowool (ceramic blanket ) to isolate the wall from the tunnel heat.the wall was covered with 1/2 a mm sheet metal to prevent the sparks to catch fire with the wooden wall.
The distance between the wall and the center of the forge fire is 20-24''
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Forged from mild steel, mechnicel wire brushing, the light when photo gives the result
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In the ANYANG and STRIKER there is NO place to put a mufler or a pnuematic filter Ptree
The question was about a STRIKER!
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James
take two wire net in the size gigger the the spoken ''port'' .put some spongy matirial between the two layer of the net fasten it to the port and this will reduce the air nose
iIdid it on some hammers and it helped a lot
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Iforged it 17 years ago !!! and it desplayed in an exebition in the barbican center in London with othe super tools I forged
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Very much hope that frosty will be on his foot as fast as possible ! We all miss him very much.!!!!!!!!
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In the pics attuched are two sculptuers made out ot very hard BASSALT stone that I was commitioned
the first are to stones nailed togethe
the second is 6 ton bassalt stonne and the 1 1.4'' rings are arranged around like a ledder in a way that one can climb up and stand on the stone
the sculptuers are located in a sculptuer garden in the galili hatzor city
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John B AND EVERY ONE ELSE ON THE SURRATING GULLIOTINE THE UPPER PART IS WELDED TO DIFFERENT STEEL WITH STAINLESS STEEL ELECTRODE AND THERE FOR NO HARM WHEN YOU HIT IT
ESPECIELY WHEN IT IS GRINDED ''ROUNDY'' AND THE OPPERATION IS DONE WHEN THE FUTUER LEAF STEEL IS HOT AND YOU GIVE ONLY A SINGLE HIT
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John B
THE CORKSCREW IS FORGED FROM 3/8'' OD
THE AXE IS FORGED FROM 1 1/8'' OD 4140
IF YOU READ IT AGAIN YOU WILL NOTICE HOW CLEAR IS THE EXPLENATION
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If you do it right mild steel is enough some times and very seldom I forge them from 1045 the axes are forged from 4140.I have lots of this steel for free this steel is used as pins for the tanks caterpiler and the onece that are rejected in the production I can get hold on OD 1 1/8''
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many times we need to forge surrated leaves . In the next pics I''ll sow two ways that I use to forge them
pic 27-28 the gulliotine made out of two parts of an old threading rigid tool
pic 29-30-31the use and the result
pic 32 one can use also a threaded bar
pic 33-34-35-36 the leaves
pic 37 if one do not like to show the lines tht are a result of the thread
it is possible to grind one face
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Supper size vice
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Supper size vice found in an old workshop
http://picasaweb.goo...hemer/SuperVice
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