JHCC

Some more work on the current railing project, enough for a test fit. 

Also spent a lot of time trying to shift a broken die out of my W.A. Whitney hand punch, to little effect. 

Well, I was able to break the rust and back the die part of the way out before it jammed again. I need to get a bigger extractor and try again. 

That’s the plan. Unfortunately, I can only access it from the back, but I just picked up a screw extractor from the hardware store that should help grab it solidly. 

My concern about beeswax would be that it isn’t particularly durable. BLO would be just fine once it dries. 

Got home from my trip to find that a 3/32” punch and die set has arrived from eBay. 

(Now I just need to figure out how to remove the broken 3/8” die that's stuck in there now.)

Oh, the irony.

The website of the industrial surplus place often has listings for magnetic chucks. They always give me a moment of pause, because the only fellow I know personally who's named Chuck isn't particularly magnetic.

Roper Whitney and W. A. Whitney are two different companies, and RW doesn’t make any tooling that fits the WAW. However, tooling for mine is still available, as discussed in THIS THREAD.

Got a couple of volumes of design inspiration at a used bookstore outside Philadelphia. 

Traveling for business, so doing a little “repoussé on the road”.  

Silly Putty makes a surprisingly good backing material. 

I was very lucky that the first time I had haggis, it had been made by a Michelin-starred chef. It was exceptionally good. 

7 minutes ago, natkova said:

you can't do punching holes where you hold piece with your legs and you drift hole.

Frankly, I have trouble with that anyway, mostly because my anvils are all a bit on the high side and I end up having to stand on tiptoes to hold workpieces between my legs. Switching to using my stock support with built-in holddown has helped a lot!

4 hours ago, gewoon ik said:

smoking can be solved by adding up to 10% parafinated oil (petroleum) in your dieselfuel

They also have patches you can put on your arm.

Doing the best I can with Google Translate. 

A little repoussé-on-the-road (specially, during downtime watching the yarn store for Lisa, who was under the weather):

 And a bit of cleanup on the new punch:

(This was just wirebrushing the working parts and oiling the whole thing, but I may do some additional cleanup on the handles later.)

Translation: “Please take a look at Trenton's number. What year it is? Thank you. It's 100 on the left. On the right is 200887.”

On 2/16/2024 at 3:34 PM, JHCC said:

Started another repoussé project, of the Ukrainian Tryzub (trident) for a friend of a friend. 

All done:

Got an old W. A. Whitney #2 punch from a guy on FB Marketplace. It has been his late father’s, but unfortunately, he hadn’t gotten the punches and bolsters from the storage shed before selling his dad’s house. Ah, well. Still a good deal for $20. 

On a side note, he showed me a very cool thing. His grandfather had been a coal miner, and the guy still had his miner’s dust mask — still in its box and brand spanking new. 

Or is it what’s at the middle of a scotch egg?

I thought a Scotch yoke was what you get when you marry a Caledonian. 

I guess that means you love everyone who’s ever given me a job!

7 hours ago, Scott NC said:

could weld on leather and rubber

Would that be a Goodyear weld?

Lovely anvil, Tina. You can post it in the Tailgating section here (LINK); just make sure to read and follow The Rules for Tailgating.

Started another repoussé project, of the Ukrainian Tryzub (trident) for a friend of a friend. 

5 minutes ago, Scott NC said:

I already have a collet set and got it cheap

Ya gotta collet like ya see it.