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JHCC

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  1. JHCC
    Terrific interview, and very informative. Nice to see your softer side!
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    Indubitably.
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    I gave my hammer a wooden wedge, but it wooden wedge. So I gave it a steel wedge, and it steel wooden wedge.
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    Had a nice visit with LouL, who showed me his in-progress forge and NARB. We threw together a quick Frosty T-burner from some of the spare parts.
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    You’ll find it rings much less than a solid steel anvil or one with a wrought iron body and steel face. Vulcans have a decent reputation, even if they’re not exactly highly sought-after. Certainly better than your HF ASO, and worth a good bit more than what you’re paying!
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    Thank you! The treadle hammer makes splitting the reins so easy (even easier now, with the added weight in the head) that almost all of the work lies in preforming, shaping, and fitting the jaws. (I should add that while these are functional, I’m not very happy with how the nibs came out. I’ll just have to make another pair....) That would be nice. I learned forge-welding back in the day, but I am horribly out of practice.
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    Here’s a pair I made from a pair of twist tongs that didn’t work out and some chunks of 1-1/4” round. And speaking of tongs, the cold shut on the offset tongs turned out to be a surface issue only, so that’s good news.
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    At least your lesson doesn't involve scalpels and antibiotics!
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    No luck on the eyepatch, alas. Arrrgh, me harrrties! "Miserable John" will be my blues guitarist name. If it had been worse, I might even have been "Blind Miserable John". Dodged that bullet, though.
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    One thing I did not immediately realize I had done in the shop yesterday was to get a sliver of metal in my eye. That tiny dot = PAIN. Even if it’s just a quick knocking off a burr, wear your safety glasses, people! Big thanks to my eye doctor for getting it out.
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    Oh, I have no doubt about it; see the link I posted about the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. I'm just saying (speaking as someone whose training is in language rather than engineering) that "drive a pile" might be used in a non-technical, informal sense as well as the technical "drive it into the ground by hitting it" sense. No worries.
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    Also, to "drive a pile" could presumably be understood in the non-literal sense of simply "installing a pile".
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    Louisiana. The piles that support the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway are 54" diameter tubes of prestressed concrete. See https://www.asce.org/project/lake-pontchartrain-causeway-bridge/.
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    No worries. Now that it's taken apart, can you give us some photos of the interior? Like Frosty, I've never seen a coal forge like that one. (PS. Had the most hideous time getting my (anthracite nut coal) fire lit yesterday. Forgot how much kindling it takes to get the stuff going.)
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    Hmm...wondering if I should have taken post-glacial rebound into account when designing my anvil stand....
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    Harder to do with split-rein tongs, but not impossible.
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    BECAUSE I'D GET TO MAKE ANOTHER PAIR!!! Seriously, though, I'll have to see how it works out. They may be perfectly adequate; I just have to see how deep the crack goes and how much metal is left after filing. This was my first pair with this type of nib, and I'd be happy to give it another try.
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    JHCC commented on TwoCreative Forge's gallery image in Members Gallery

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    Really pretty. Excellent proportions, and the decorative elements are really great. Good job.
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    Tong update: just noticed a cold shut on one of the jaws. Hopefully I can file it out, but otherwise I'll have to be making another pair. Ah, well: live and learn.
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    I personally do it to help smooth out the surface.
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    Thanks to you both. I haven’t developed a strong preference for wooden handles vs. rodded. In this case, though, being able to use the preform without any modification (beyond notching it for the rod) was a big plus.
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    I’m tempted to try gas for two main reasons: consistent temperature (especially for knifemaking), and ease of startup. Considering that it took me an hour and a half to get a coal fire going this afternoon, the latter is looking particularly appealing right now.... Thanks, Mudman!
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    It’s worth noting that while a double-horn anvil does have its advantages, you can always make tooling to fit in the hardy hole of a London-pattern anvil that will give you the same functionality. In other words, if a good anvil of either type comes your way, don’t hold back waiting for the “perfect“ example of the other kind. Not knowing where you are in the world, it’s hard to say which one will be more common where you are.
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    As noted in the “What did you do in the shop today?” thread, I added another 23 pounds of lead and adjusted the return springs. The return is a little slower than before, so the cycle is a bit sluggish overall. However, it hits a lot harder now, and I split the reins on another pair of tongs in five heats. (Probably could have done it in four, but the gouge that cuts the end of the split was giving me trouble.)
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    Turned a jackhammer bit preform into a rodded top fuller and banged out a pair of offset tongs to fit the 1080 bar stock I picked up at Quad-State.
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