October 4, 201213 yr Got the itch today while some stuff for work was heating up in the forge to make some engraving chisels. Got some 1/2" 1045 from Aldo and 1 heat and a grind later here we go.Kinda got lucky and nailed the angles all freehand on the first one, next one took some tweaking but I htink I have a good working understanding of a "blacksmith's" engraver angle setup (IE not to any exact angle just eyeballed). I want to engrave my whole layout table. It is interesting to work with such large gravers, much more comfortable to my blacksmith hands then tiny things I need a magnifier to see. I made the hammer, and the chisels hehe.
October 4, 201213 yr cute Sam, but if you engrave on the top you might find that the pictures become buggered up and filled with welding beebees. Maybe engrave all down the legs and on the underside of the table..... PS make sure to carve a fat Totoro some where
October 5, 201213 yr Author WOW a Totoro, that is such a perfect idea I must do it!!!! Thanks Mack! Not too worried about it getting all buggered, I think them getting all weather would be kind of neat
October 5, 201213 yr Cool tools Sam. They're now added to the list. The way this list is growing, I need to retire, so I can do all the stuff on there. The isolation out here is starting to show....I had to look up what a Totoro is and looks like...and I'm still not much more enlightened than when I started...Ah well.....
October 5, 201213 yr I thought totoro was spanish for that little dog..the one where the little girl in the movie that clicked her heels together...Yes...the one from Kansas
October 5, 201213 yr Whirly, don't feel bad. I have been to DragonCon, my wife is Faculty Advisor for the school Anime club, and I had to look up too!
October 5, 201213 yr Author Totoro is a magical Japanese monster/rabbit/fluffy nice guy/spirit. Totoro is his name but also his species, IE Totoro is the biggest of all the totoros.
October 6, 201213 yr Riiiiight......Mate, why am I hearing in the background the theme from "The Twilight Zone"? :lol: ...and John, there's a school for this stuff? :blink: Seriously, the chisels look good Sam. I'll have a go making some from that 9264 I picked up the other day. Used a piece and made up a fast&dirty one to make a touchmark and it works great on hot. Will see how it performs on cold metal and if any good, will go from there. Any ideas/diagrams of chisel points required? or just make up as needed? Haven't tried my hand at steel craving, so all new to me (which is great, something new to try.... I just love this site :wub: )
October 6, 201213 yr Whirly, in our dotage, we have both ended up as Instructors in a rather large community college, and both ended up as Faculty Advisors to clubs in our hobbies, me in blacksmithing, her in Anime & SciFi. But I like the term totoro, a troll-sized fluffy nice-guy wood spirit, suits me to a "T". :D I'm stealing it! Gonna have to see the movie now. Back on topic, Sam that looks really good. Thanks for sharing that, it just never occurred to me to try full sized carving with full sized tools, being frustrated after trying engraving while clutching the steel toothpicks and microhammer with my paws.
October 6, 201213 yr sam that is a heartbreaking cute bunny :) nice choice.. also very cool that you will cover your layout table, it will look awesome. i dont know what this toto bunny thing is (where my family comes from you were taught never to say the R word, considered unlucky...?) but looks like he has a groovy reputation :) how pleasing to make hammer and chisels for your table tattoos. NICE :)
October 7, 201213 yr Hi Sam , very nice work. Please excuse my ignorance, but do you have to heat your table top before you engrave it them fighting irons?
October 7, 201213 yr Whoa Sam! This is yor neighbour???? Man, tough neigbourhood! if that thing tuned up in my neck of the woods the greetings would be travelling at about 940 m/p/s, in 7.62mm at about 180 Gr...and there'd be lots of them.....
October 24, 201213 yr Adorable !!! Just one of the many great things you can do. The hammer and the chisels – oh they are fine !!!
October 24, 201213 yr I read this thread because of the title "Rabbit Engraving"....I wanted to see how he kept the rabbit still long enough to engrave him....guess I misread it... :blink: :o
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