Manuel-Pagani

On 5/29/2019 at 11:23 AM, ThomasPowers said:

 

Thanks for the comments! today i'm Will make the first test whith sand filling and an electric blower

Hi, I'm in the process of making a side blast forge and i want to share whith you. The design is based on Mark Aspery notes, the Main body is almost complete and now i'm working on the Hand Crank blower, inspired in a antique Buffalo flyweel design. Eveverything is Made of scrap ir recycled parts and materials. 

My idea is to use this coque forge whithout electricity, it will depend on the eficiency of the blower design, but whit the 60cm cast iron wheel driving a 2cm diámeter blower pulley plus the Crank relation of two turns of the flyweel per Crank i think it Will work.The main air tube is made big for this propouse from a 9cm Pipe narrowed at 2,6cm at the tip of the nozzle. What do you think?

This post bring me back ti the forum since a long time, i will apressiate your suggestions and coments, i will go posting the progresess. 

I read in some other post about filling the botom of the forge whith different materials, i have on hand two: masonry sand or black soil (not a clay type) what did you recomend as a best option?

Thanks and have a good forging day every body!

Thanks for the info, I been using it and seems to work fine. Is not high-tech but now I have an idea of how much temperature is my forge . 

Hello, I found this in the junk yard.

Someone already use one of these in a gas forge? It seems to be usefull for tempering using the forge as a oven, What do you think?

I make this for heavy duty use as fullering hammers heads without a striker , just common parts welded togheder, dies are truck springs. I swing a 5 lb sledge on it with no problem. It fits in my striking anvil.

I made my  wood rasps from these blades, they are usefully tools at knife handle making

I found this very old two hammers today , some idea for his potential use? I think  one is a little set hammer and the other could be a leafing one .

2 hours ago, Frank Turley said:

This knife was given to me by a collector whom I had helped ID some of his stuff. It is said to be an Argentine gaucho knife,

This kind of knife y pretty common here they are made whith 

This is a common knife here, they are made with shear scissors like in the photo, gaucho's and modern people use this for cut horse and sheep hair. It's a simple knife but this blades if are old have one of the best steel I've ever seen.

On 7/11/2017 at 3:59 PM, Irondragon Forge & Clay said:

Would love to hear about the tool's and knives of the Gaucho's.

When a I got a little time  I will write some i know about it and post some photos

I think doesn't matter if the eye is rectangular or oval, the handle fit  well in both, I guess it's a design tradition    What matter is the hammer shape and the way is used.

On 7/4/2017 at 8:30 AM, HP500 said:

I took my eye off of the forge for only about 10 seconds. It was enough to ruin hours of labor. I was bummed about it, but I'll chalk this up to lessons learned. My "two piece draw knife" will be given a prominent place near my forge as a reminder to pay more attention to what I'm doing.

It took to me 3 attempts to make mi first drawknife the first end like yours, the second crack at quenching it an the third is in the photo. if you don`t give up in a few days you will have a lot o shaving coming from it, good luck in the next!

2 hours ago, JHCC said:

That's a very nice collection @Manuel-Pagani -- and that's speaking both as a hobby smith and as a former professional woodworker.

Well, these days I can't tell you who I am because I start working with wood in a luthier shop making guitars and other fine wood instruments an here become my tool making passion,over time mi mind changes and I got carried away by my creativity, whatever I'm doing,I'm doing tools all kind, so if I had to tell I'm a tool maker and a full time craftman who pay his bills with wood and steel. This in my life is my "iron age"

Thanks it takes a whole month and lot of work too make all these tools to swit my needs.

The U shaped tool is for  finish hollow surface like bowls, inspired in chair making tool called "scorp"

My recipe is graphite, dish washer and water, works well for drifting, maybe next time I tried mixing it with some vegetal oil.

For punching nothing like coal dust, or smashed coke I never get staked using it.

Cool! It's perfect method for magnetize an uphostery hammer, Did you think it work with a common arc welder?

There is my initiation at tool making: some of the tools I've been made and use in my woodwork shop.

Thanks  for the welcome Frosty! Rounding hammer is my favorite too, i learn a lot making it and a lot using it. There's nothing like self-made tools

Great! Thanks for this information, you make me see things in other ways connecting art, history and blacksmithing.

To be my first post I am more than satisfied, I like when things come I did not expect

Thanks

6 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Looks rather spanish styled to me---look at the details of Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan by Diego Velázquez, (1630). you will see several like that.  As well as being used by the cutlers in Sheffield England, saw tuners in America.  A rather common style historically.  Why folks put extra emphasis on it being "Japanese" styled I don't know.

Look under dog headed hammers for other examples.

You are right it will be a vulcano's hammer! Nice picture!

It's nothing about being Japanese just what inspired this tool, after all is a thing to make a thing that I need to make other thing.

It's my second hammer , the first is the 3lb rounding hammer in the photo(best and usefully thing I ever forge) and I can swing it all day so my vulcano hammer is 2.5lbs , hopefully it will suit my needs if not I make a other, but I'm optimistic 

Glen I'm from Argentina , the propouse of the hammer is forging long blade tools as a "machete" and large knifes I figure out that this kind of Japanese hammer will work better for narrow and thin stuff 

Today I took a section of a car axle an drift a hole through it.

My pretention is to make a Japanese hammer from it so I need some advice about the proportions from someone who know something about this type of hammer and his Technic.

This is my first post an I'm not English speaker so if  my gramathic is not so good forgive me.

Have a good forging day!

Hi Dkish , I think your forge will work to start, I recommend to experiment with making your own burner.

This month I finished my gas forge and y had  to say that the key is the burner, I spent a lot of hours searching and learning about propane forges from Ron reil's page and then start building my own of EZ burner , it takes three attempts to susefull (it take an whole year of experience ) but the results pay the effort. I put the burner in mi experimental fire brick forge and the result surprise me, a very good forge . 

So the forge it self is the easy part, it can be whatever you can afford, the best and more insulating material the best but the heart is the burner, and de iddle system. Here some photos