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  1. Josh.Sampson
    I remember making leaves just like that at first. It’s a good start. Almost 2 years in now and everything’s looking a lot better. Everyone starts where you are. You have a lot to look forward to. Here’s the last couple things I’ve made. Working on a gravy ladle to go with the flesh fork now. Everything is hammer finished.
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    This is geared toward things like hammers, horseshoes, finding center on things between 4” (pretty easy to eyeball) and 20ish” quickly. Just an idea I had and brought to life. I too have used many methods of finding center of length. I keep a 3’ steel folding rule in my back pocket all day every day. Love it.
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    From what I’m picturing, I can’t imagine this one tool working well with a variety of lengths and cross sections. Say you have a piece of 3/8x3/4 at 12.75” long and a piece 1/2” square at 6” long. If you had just one of the tools you speak of, would it work on both of these? If so, I need pictures because what I’m picturing would not.
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    Yes. From what I picture from your description, I’d imagine it would only work on fairly wide stock or you would need a few different sizes of the tool. I could be misinterpreting. Do you have a picture of one?
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    Time will tell. I think since it is hardened it will take a while to cinch up. We shall see. Thanks for the compliments.
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    I had the idea of making a pair of callipers similar to the Golden Mean callipers I forged but to measure the halfway point instead. When working out the numbers, I realized the center point would be dead center of the bottom rivet. I had the idea to make the bottom rivet of tool steel (Atlantic 33 in this case) and make a center punch of the rivet. It works well though I would make the tool steel rivet differently next time. I think this will prove to be a handy tool. Sorry I didn’t get progress pics this time but the process is nearly identical to the Golden Mean process I documented in an earlier post. But I did get a video showing how well it works. Hope you enjoy. IMG_2029.mp4
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    Very nice! You can definitely do some fine tuning with it cold. I started on the center punch style at Kevin’s. Just finished them up last night at Steve King’s. I’ll send you some pics and maybe post some here. The sliding center pointer idea did come up but I like that I can mark the center easily with them. Correct. You can change the ratio to anything you want and the bends are mostly aesthetic. The most important part is all of the ratios working out correctly. I’m going to post a center punch pair I just finished up.
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    Thanks you very much. I just started another pair but instead of the Golden Mean they will measure the center point. The center will be in the middle of the lowest rivet so I plan on making that rivet from tool steel and leaving enough on one side for a point to use as a Center punch. I’ll post pics when I finish them. Haven’t done good on progress pics with them though.
  9. Josh.Sampson
    That looks great! Did you get your power hammer yet? I’ll probably bring them to Kenny's. I’ll have to keep them off the iron in the hat table.
  10. Josh.Sampson
    Some Golden Means Calipers I just finished up. Actually took some progress pics on this one.
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    I’ll try to make a post in the general discussion with progress pics.
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    They are Golden Means Calipers. There’s one more piece that will link the pointer in the middle to the other caliper half. They will show the proportions of the Golden Ratio or Golden Means which is everywhere in nature. It’s a very interesting phenomenon. I will post progress pics and the finished product when I finish it up.
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    I was sad to see a lot of his videos gone. There were a lot of good references.
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    One more piece to forge before assembling. Top holes are round punched. The rest are slot punched and drifted. Would like to find time tomorrow to finish em up.
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    Are you located in Indiana? I’m a member of the IBA and would love to see this thing sometime.
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