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No, it's hot (around 260°C-280°C).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP7J4VkBWck Hardening and tempering from 7:00 Willy

Relax! We're all crazy. It's not a competition.

It were the French pre WW1. The Dutch call them Klompen. Willy

Sorry, only in german https://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/marken.phtml

It's a factory made Engineer's Hammer made by Peddinghaus.

Fingers were earlier. Willy

I seldom teach forging. Mostly I forge on events like school or city festivals, christmas markets and so on. So I see my "customers" only 15 to 30 minutes. To make shure that everything stays safe, I handle the steel and the child works like a striker would do - Whomp - tink - whomp - tink... Except when only light blows are needed like bending the heart open. p.s.: Tink --- (Usually) the father: "Hit harder!" --- Twank - missed. I tell the child: "Don't strike so hard. You will miss. You are simply to young make heavy blows and hit the steel. Get 12 to 16 years old and you will hit ard and not miss. Willy

Snails

Tip for demos: Don' tell the spectators what you are forging. Let them guess. Interesting how few people can imagine what you are forging until you fold it open. And many stay - at least until it's ready. Willy

We make a short square tip so they can be pushed into a flowerpot. The stem about 30 cm long. (Sometimes i tell the child now it can hammer it into the livingroom cabinet - makes it's parents looking funny . GRIN) The smallest heart I forged was made of 2mm round for a mini cactus, the biggest one of 2,5m by15mm round. That one was in a set of 5 different forged hearts.

Happy Mothers Day

Okay, not a tripod but a sixpod.

Never without my SAK

You didn't miss anything. I was just looking for some popcorn and when I returned to the computer it was all done. It went out like the second fight Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston. Liston was agressive and Ali hit him.

Looks like a Pelgrom tong

To add good European files: Vallorbe, F. Dick

And B should be 1 1/8"

The 350mm Pferd files are 15mm diameter. All information in their catalogue. Can't find it on their Australian site. But on their UK site you can download it.

Just finished my second sword. Had a little bit of quenching distortion

The ship was raised by Smit Internationale N.V, the Company that raised (together with Mammoet) the Kursk.

Really funny anvil: Not really northern (but mostly) , not really southern plus the hardy hole is on the wrong side (like italian).

Same weight - not necessaraly. The center of gravity of both - the "spring and hammer mechanism" and the counterweight should be in the center of the tire.

Nice little side axe! There is a micro USB plug for size comparison

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