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One of the many reasons I stopped working there. (Although turning alabaster lampshades was a lot of fun.)

Clicking on the link downloads the file, which then plays on my computer just fine. If you have a YouTube channel, you can upload the video there and then embed that video to play directly within your post. For example, that's what I did with this little video that shows the effect of the old gate valve on my JABOD:

That was before you knew that milk was no good for metal fume fever!

Ooh, cute.

You must have a comprehensive mental filing system.

That’s “Wilkinson”, not “Nicholson”. And yes, they were fairly common.

Sounds like a fantastic class. Pity we can’t get him here, but thank you for sharing those photos and telling us about the experience.

Or just build a treadle hammer!

Quite right; I should have thought of that. It's been doing well so far, but that was a semi-protected location. I wonder if one might put some kind of filter around the casing (a cloth sleeve? an old sock?) to keep the dust out.

Or simply buy one. A decent bending iron can be had for under $200, and a copper billet could easily cost that. Aluminum would be cheaper and would still work, but either way you'd still have to figure out the heating system.

This is what Uri Hofi had to say about the Big Blu hammers: "The BigBlu by Mr. Dean Curfman that also paid twice a visit to my smithy in Israel twice special to learn how to forge the Hofi hammer and to grind it and also to learn about the quick change system for the air hammer die and about forging other tools that he sells now. The air hammer school is also my idea and I was teaching there the '' free form air hammer system''. Mr. Dean Curfmann also took three classes with me at the Ozark and in NY." See https://www.iforgeiron.com/index2.html/articles/a0019-the-hofi-hammer-r129/ for more details.

It's not a how-to, but there's a great little video online about Ruana Knives in Montana, which uses cast aluminum handles with elk antler inserts. The section with the casting starts at 4:00.

Oh, I have no doubts. I just wouldn't be surprised to see someone attempting to justify the too-soon-out-of-the-quench flare as a byproduct of a deliberately interrupted quench. It's my cynical side.

When I was working in the art restoration studio, I once had to turn a large-diameter mirror frame on a woefully underpowered and undersized lathe. The only way I was able to do it was to jam a lance-like tool (one that I'd made out of a stonecarver's point, for turning alabaster) into a hole in the faceplate, get the thing spinning with muscle power, turn on the lathe motor, work the frame until the vibration started to get scary, turn off the motor, do some more work on the frame as it coasted down, and repeat. The things we do to put bread on the table.

Cue the discussions of "interrupted quenches".

Welcome to IFI! If you haven't yet, please READ THIS FIRST!!! I'm no casting expert by any means, but when I worked in the violin repair shop, the bending iron we used was made from aluminum. Any particular reason you wanted to use copper, and wouldn't it be easier (and safer!) to buy a chunk of copper rod (or aluminum, for that matter) and file it into shape?

You walked into the forge like you were climbing out of your bed. Your PPE guarded your ears and your eyes; Your scarf, it was light cherry red.

You're so vine. I bet you think this post is about you.

If it is a Mousehole, it's a very early one. I don't know if MH made anvils without a step or with that swelling in the middle of the sides of the base, but The Mousehole Forge by Richard Postman would have the documentation if they did.

THE WICKER MAN!!! Really nice work! I mounted the variac (speed control for the blower) on the frame of the new forge. (Although I’m not crazy about how it sticks out. I may move it to somewhere less exposed.)

The word you're looking for is "tuyere". "Tyre" is the British spelling for "tire".

That’s the beauty of a DVR: you can fast-forward through the commercials, and only lose forty minutes of your life. One of the best things about Forged In Fire is that it showcases real skill. While it’s obviously an artificial setting, there is enough genuine drama in the forging and the blade tests that extraneous and unnecessary puffery is kept to a minimum. This “Knife or Death” spin-off, on the other hand, has to stretch ten minutes or so of actual cutting into a forty minute show, so they throw in a ton of gimmickry. I doubt it lasts more than a single season.

Welcome to IFI! If you haven't already, please READ THIS FIRST!!! We have a number of members in Ohio (myself included) -- where are you specifically?

This is IFI, where no thread is safe from hijacking. No harm in coming back to the original subject, though.

Are those single-grain or three-grain?