Jo_Bai

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I hope your pets got through the fireworks just fine.

Freki didn't care and slept and was interested in cheese, nothing more.

Looks great JHCC Is this your normal everyday chaos or did you clean up for the photos?

6 hours ago, Frosty said:

My computer says the original question is only 5 hours old and I've been watching to see who will answer for several days. 

 

It is a new post and was truly only 5 hours old when you posted

3 hours ago, Nobody Special said:

I've only made single sided ones, but I would think there would be a couple of ways to go about it for a double. If you upset the leg, as above, you would have to do it with struck tools instead of on the anvil, or as noted, you would collapse the other legs.

I mostly forge alone, so a striker completely escaped my mind. That's the perfect reason to build a treadle hammer or get the wife in the shop

3 hours ago, Nobody Special said:

It might be easier to do it by working with thicker stock than you end up with and cutting.  Take a narrow bar and use half-face blows to taper the handle end, below where the lower parts of the jaws should be.

A few inches from the far end, make two cuts in a V shape, with the bottom of the V towards you. You'd want to leave maybe half the thickness of the bar. Bend the two cut pieces out, as if you were making out decorative elements on a strap hinge, but instead, use fullering and upsetting to form the two lower legs.

I searched some more and found this, that is also a great way, thanks

The last thing could be forge welding. As you said, it seems like a fun project

Thanks for all the ideas. I will try to build V.1 in the following days.

As I have started to look into the ABANA LVL 2 course, I found this picture in the reference material:

Now I am wondering how to forge the middle one. So far I looked at the single wench from Mark Aspery ind this video:

I thought about upsetting the top and split it but can't wrap my head around it, how to make the bottom two legs without collapsing one of them. Please help me out.

9 hours ago, hbmasa said:

Is yellow ok to hammer this stuff? Down to bright tangerine for welding??

I don't know how the light is in your shop, so it's difficult to tell. Here is a video where you can see at around 4:20 what it should look like and what to look out for.
 

You can twist it now if you want, then its more like regular twist Damascus. I just wanted to show you how the twist before welding should look like.

Grind it for fun, nothing to lose. Take the good pieces and make something out of it.

18 minutes ago, hbmasa said:

why will slag pop off when i hammer it but not fall out from inside the braid

The channel will be almost close. I still think that it's a lost chase.

Here as a reference. You should twist it more.

32 minutes ago, George N. M. said:

The books are always heavier than you think and the shelves are not as strong as you would think.

I second that! In my old shelf, I bent the boards. 

6 minutes ago, Steel Serpent Smithy said:

It's good weather today so I'm going to push myself to get out there.

That's great, do it. Please report how the smoke situation was this time with all the tips! I hope you have a great day at the forge.

2 minutes ago, hbmasa said:

Doesnt flux fight scale when it dissappears in the cable.

From my knowledge, flux is there to help fight oxidation in the first place. But with heavy scale in the cracks, I don't think flux is enough. 

On 12/19/2023 at 12:27 AM, Frosty said:

You know the difference in dog barks, from the "I'm HERE" bark, "strangers coming" or the, "Come NOW the world is ending," bark.

Ohh yeah, that bark goes straight through your bones. 

The story with the breeder is something that is also happening here in Germany. That's why I chose an association with strict rules. Before you get a puppy there you have to jump to several hoops (A walk with a breeder to get to know you and a questionnaire, then waiting around 1-1.5 years until it's your turn, meet the breeder somewhere in Germany a few times and get to know them and only then you get a dog). In the associations' magazine was a story, this time about a mishandled puppy and the reaction from the association about it (got taken away and has a new home). Horrible stuff

They both look like angels, I would take Libby in a heartbeat with that look. I remember when I got the papers for Miki, he slept in my arm that night. It was a one time thing and I think he was too happy to have a new home. 

1 hour ago, JHCC said:

socialization makes a huge difference. 

They are stubborn as they can be. My breeder told me to get to know other dogs as soon as possible, otherwise Eurasier get racist and only play with other dogs who are fluffy and have a curled tail. I went with him everywhere, so today I got a dog, that is relaxed everywhere we go.

Samoyed's are great too. I always loved to pet them, when the owner was looking through my stuff.

On 12/25/2023 at 6:27 PM, Frosty said:

Joining the ranks of Geekdom are you Jono? Welcome aboard, what character classes are you playing?

Jer, I have always been a nerd. It helped me a lot to get out of my comfort zone and talk much. I think this is why I have a good standing for my forging demos because I can talk the whole day and be entertaining. For my character: 90% human mage and always in person. I don't find playing in front of the pc, without seeing the other, fun. So far I have been playing on and off for around 20 years (AD&D, D&D 3.0+3.5 and nowadays 5.0)

On 12/27/2023 at 5:12 AM, JHCC said:

After posting the above photo, I added another bit of sheet that makes the catcher even more effective:

That thing looks great and surly will be a great time saver for you.

7 minutes ago, hbmasa said:

If i refine the weld, (just hit it repeatedly) would it solidify in the wasted space?

The chance is, that there is a lot of scale in it. You would need to clean every unwelded piece up to try again. In my opinion, try again instead of fixing it.

9 hours ago, Hefty said:

Here it is with most of the imperfections filed off.

Make the side with the 1 a bit bigger, so it rolls more 8’s. Your friend will be happy with his "lucky" die

Love it! A very comfy forge. It reminds me of the bellows of a friend of mine. He uses his foots instead. Sadly, I don't have a better photo as my stuff is still in boxes.

For me, the way to start a fresh fire without coal is building a good wood fire. I get the wood fire to burn well (use really dry stuff, so it will be smokeless), make it a lot bigger and start to put fresh coal at the edge. Because the wooden fire is burning, the smoke from the coal burns too. Then you put more coal on the edge and push the coal, that you put on first, more in the middle. If there is a gap in the middle where the flames from the wood can come up, it will eliminate the smoke. 

Does that make sense? I could make a short video if it is too difficult to wrap the head around it  

That sounded interesting, so I did some digging:
 

Seems like I need a new pair of tongs.

My thought was to make it loose paper. You take a journal page and put it on something like a clipboard. When you are finished, it goes in a binder and is archived. Does that sound better than a book?

The idea with a music stand is great. I also have the problem that flat surfaces collect things.....

I was thinking about starting to journal about my projects when I needed to replicate some items and completely forgot the dimensions I used. 

So far I found something like that, but thought I could use your knowledge and make one myself and make it for everyone to use.

Ideas so far are:

An Index

Date

Description of the basic idea

Timetable for different work steps

Sequence of the important steps

Used starting stock

Which special tools are needed

Encountered problems

Other notes

References 

graph paper for drawings

Now my question for you is, what would you do different/add/remove.
 

I am with you on the dogs. I always paused my demos before, to pet dogs and have the same experience. Nowadays, people stop to pet my dogs but mostly try to pat the top of the head first and only one likes that. So the red one doesn't like strangers as much as he liked them as a puppy.

So far, my dogs don't experience children's roughness, as I don't have any of my own and don't let other children be rough to my dogs. 

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I am looking forward to your video (if it gets released on YouTube). I fell the same, that content has degraded. A lot of the same stuff and rarely something different. 

14 hours ago, jlpservicesinc said:

Did you find any others? 

Sure, but they are not working with wrought iron.
 

And here 2 other videos, where a similar joint is used.
 

So far these are the only one I remember. The rest use a different joining method.

He loves children and always want to play with them. So far, I can't remember an Eurasier who dislikes children. That's because the KZG (Eurasier breeder association in Germany) has rules, that puppies need to have contact with different children in their first weeks until they are given away.

With strangers, he is interested but a bit distant. Normally he has around 2–3 feet distance to them and only comes near if I tell them that the strangers are friendly.