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nuge

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  1. My Grandma sent me a hard copy of this in the mail, she does that. The subject is a member here, hope this is o.k. I think its one of the best PR pieces I have seen, taught me a bunch on promotion. Good story too. http://www.jsonline.com/business/forging-his-own-career-b99165636z1-237844151.html
  2. I think the one word response was all that this question deserved. Ideas are sacred, push yourself to do your own work. I think we all know where the line is. So easy to steal when it's only an idea, right? Or so easy Not to? When Brazeal style horse head openers show up on Etsy, as they have, it's profoundly uncool. Guess what, it's going to happen, you have to stay one step ahead of the fly skimmers. Oh yeah, I take issue with the statement "there's nothing new under the sun" as it nullifies much of my time spent, one of the other few sacred things.
  3. Soapstone works well to prop things up off the coils and is hardy. I use the pencil inserts sold at welding suppliers. Soft fire brick can be carved to match the inside diameter of your coils giving you insulation as well as protection but you lose some efficiency due to the necessary thickness of the material. Good luck have fun.
  4. Ok, forgive my naive-ness, but I have a question. Is this for someone pretending to be an Englishman pretending to scalp native Americans?
  5. A organic farmer neighbor of mine just built a big barn with an attached apartment and when "they" learned he was going to be washing lettuce on a large scale he was required to put up a firewall of 5 layers of 5/8 drywall, taped and mudded, inspected each layer. You should see the nooks they had to fill. Non sense.
  6. It is an old on/off pedal from a flex shaft I had kicking around. When your foot comes off, it's off.
  7. I use a foot pedal on my drill press, quick to stop if there's trouble and also very efficient.
  8. couple oldies. Hand made openers and a nice six pack brings smiles to almost anybody that I know. cool work everyone
  9. Hope that you can get some pics soon Jim. I am about to meld the hossfeld and platen and would like to see your connection. I don't have too much special tooling for mine, a five by five that is a full six inches thick. I mostly use the dogs, big welding clamps, angle plates, and of course the mass.
  10. One time I cut the end off a big one and made a clock. There was a real nasty porous pumice like filler in there, and of course plenty of smelly smell. Wouldn't do it again. Dumb and younger.
  11. Man, you really need a torch for wraps. Keep craigslisting, get decent sized tanks. Drawings look cool, you should build it, sell it, buy torch, build another.
  12. Or the historical footage of Paley and his helper working that big upset in the vice. That's you man, that's me, that's anyone who has tried to own iron. This guy doesn't forge much anymore but he is a smith. Anybody watch the Tom Joyce episode? His intentions seem so pure, so thought out. It's wonderful to see these guys speak. You get a peek into the big smooshy stuff Joyce is doing with the huge industrial presses and furnaces.
  13. Cool show. Funny, I saw tons of smithing in the Paley segment. The historical footage, the works in his gallery, and the jewelry pieces had some great nonferrous forging. Sweet to see I the evolution and the amazing studio that is today. I gotta say I am stumped by smooth bore's "elitist flight of fancy" remark.??? The website for this show has an episode entitled "memories" that has a Tom Joyce segment. You trad guys may be disappointed again but there is a bit of double striking and a drop tongs weld so it might not be a total loss. The other artists in that episode blew me away as well. There is as much or more to learn from other disciplines as watching metal guys, I think.
  14. I had the same hammer, same issue. One thing that I was told as a last case was to chamfer the rings. Not being fluent on the insides of air hammers I chose not to investigate this option. It was my only hammer at the time which made the warm up time (about twenty minutes) unbearable so I chose to trade up but man when that little guy got going it would really hit. Another fix may be to rig up a heat blanket around the pistons. My current hammer is a 40 kg striker and it actually has the opposite problem. On hot days I get about an hour of hard work before the pistons get too hot and the hammer gets a little erratic. I was thinking maybe a brassiere filled with ice packs. Who wants to forge when it's 95 degrees out anyway? I think your best bet might be to feed it as much steel as possible, repeat. It does get better.
  15. Bought one from Centaur in '96, still going strong. Mine is a clamshell design with a blower, seems to sip gas compared to others I have used (5-6 psi). Easy to reline, love it.
  16. I do cringe when I see how my work is displayed in some shops and totally understand making displays. I want them to buy those too but if it helps sell the work you gotta do what you need to do, I may need to rethink my strategy especially in long term relationships. As far as consignment % I have never run into anything less than 60/40 (artist favor) and typically its 50/50. Does this matter? I mean, your price is what it is, do we even need to know? I heard a story about a gallery in Aspen that was selling work, shipping it to New York instead of to the client, and selling again.
  17. I do consignment but its a pain. Mostly because the upkeep of the relationship is no fun and the shop owner is no way invested in their inventory. Everyone has to start somewhere but I would be hesitant to build a display in a consignment scenario. That problem gets deeper because why would the shop owner take the time to display your work properly if they don't have anything into the deal. Win win for someone, not you. If the shop owner is a pro, your work is good and fairly priced (they can make 50%) try to take the hard line and make them buy it. If they are on the fence give them a 75% buyback credit into future work. If you know or trust the owners, by all means leave some work, I at least like to keep that situation fairly local. Artist owned galleries are nice in that they know what it's like, but if they get a good serious big ticket buyer in, whose work are they going to guide them towards? Pretty much the one they get all of the $$ from and your work gets to decorate their space.
  18. That's not that big of a span. Go to the steel yard and see what they have, you can make the call when you handle a few different sized/thick pipes.
  19. Yup, dems mine. I used to rent some space from a great timber-guy. We did some fun stuff, not sure how some of it got through the engineering dept. Not that it wasn't bomber, just unorthodox. P.M. me if I can help. Well, when you get some...Where in Wisco? Grew up in Germantown.
  20. Wall piece, bout twenty inches, nope, deets only! (Smiley face). Whatcha got to share, dark frog?
  21. Timber deets. The second is cool because the collars are on the diamond thus the timbers are keyed in, and that's a proper rivet, scorched some wood.. The third is a crazy contraption with which you can tighten up the roof. Enjoy.
  22. Got to tag along with a thermite welding crew, fun stuff.
  23. Man, don't take it that way. " Forge on" is great advice. Everybody have some cool deets to share. Best part is that you can crop out all the stuff you messed up.
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