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JHCC

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    Yup.
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    They have a rather cool blacksmith shop too, if memory serves.
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    Hmmm...maybe I shouldn’t trust it....
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    Courtesy of a coworker (who found it in the garage of a house she just bought), my next slack tub:
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    Get a piece of 1/8” sheet. Cut and bend as shown.
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    You can always make an adapter out of 1/8" sheet.
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    Welcome to IFI! If you haven't yet, please READ THIS FIRST!!!
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    This might be of interest: https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2015/06/art-making-charcoal-hopewell-furnace-national-historic-site26699
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    Ball peen hammers can be reforged to other shapes.
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    How did Eve feel about that? Basalt or pumice?
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    Welcome to IFI! If you haven't yet, please READ THIS FIRST!!! Where are you in Ohio? Have you checked out the Western Reserve Artist Blacksmiths Association?
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    I use a motorcycle chain I picked up from the shoulder of I-90 in Boston. It hooks onto a rail at the back of the anvil stand, so it can be positioned almost anywhere along the length of the anvil. The weight is a bell clapper from a Russian Orthodox monastery in New York State. (NB: there are two holds-down shown here, but I moved one of them to my adjustable stand.)
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    If it’s a spring, it might make decent knife stock. I would straighten it out, cut a bit off, and test-harden it.
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    Roughly. Here’s a sketch of the planned cross section: (Keeping in mind that no battle plan survives contact with the enemy.)
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    That’s very cool.
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    NARB and gas forge (from a helium tank converted back from a slack tub), ready for refractory.
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    Yeah, I am planning to cut it down.
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    Finished the metalwork on my new NARB; just need to make the mold for the refractory block and cast it. (Side note: the Mother of All Tinsnips made cutting the expanded metal a breeze!)
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    Typo. Good catch. (And kudos for proper use of a photo in a quote!)
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    Very cool.
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    Yeah, but I’m not sure ten pounds of white powder would have passed without comment or delay.
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    Also had a package from Glenn waiting when I got home. Thanks, Glenn!
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    Goodies brought home from this week’s business trip: Frosty T-burner parts and a chunk of 2” square tube for a NARB plenum (gifts from from IFI member LouL — thanks, Lou!) for me, and yarn for Lisa. (Lou was going to give me some Cast-o-Lite 30, but we decided that that would REALLY have freaked out the TSA.)
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    Nice looking blades. Looking forward to seeing how the finished knives come out.
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