mike-hr Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Started with 5 inches of 1-1/4" round. Started upsetting it with the Kinyon hammer just to see what would happen. It started to take on a roundish shape after a few heats, so I went with it. Came out 2-1/4" diameter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Having a ball, I see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Cochran Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Now you need to forge a cannon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Yep, one of those old barel stave, banded jobs... we're blacksmiths not foundry men ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Just remember to will me your smithing stuff before firing it off the first time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Furrer Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Good forging experiment. I do the same to show visitors the plastic nature of hot steel. Ric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Be a cool shift knob. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Till you hit a pothole and it shifts itself...I like the powerhammer "diamonds" folks forge; but can't talk my wife into getting one for a ring... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Don't you drive around the potholes? I can't afford the tires and alignments driving through them incurs. Seriously a set of tires for the pickup runs more than a grand mounted and balanced, an alignment costs another $400. if they only have to adjust it, parts are extra. Oh yeah, replacing a wheel is about $200. If I can't avoid the hole I slow down folks behind me can slow down AND swear at me too if the wish. I don't care. Oh yeah a shift knob that weighs a couple lbs. shifting gears for you wouldn't need a pothole up here, a "smooth" road has enough woops in it to do that without missing pavement and caverns. Just an ice heave in spring is enough to pop you out of gear and we have a tree shift automatic. You have to know where the ice heaves grow and they can show up over night. So yeah, I'll have to pass on a 2 1/4" dia. steel sphere shift knob too resplendant forged coolness not withstanding. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozenforge Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Let alone how that steel would feel on a -20'F morning, although that hasn't been an issue the last two winters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 more trouble with 160 deg F out here from cars parked in the sun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foundryman Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 On 01/03/2016 at 1:37 PM, Charles R. Stevens said: Yep, one of those old barel stave, banded jobs... we're blacksmiths not foundry men ;-) Speak for yourself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Wasn't that a Devo meme "Are we not foundry MEN?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclark36 Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 On 3/1/2016 at 11:04 AM, Frosty said: Don't you drive around the potholes? I can't afford the tires and alignments driving through them incurs. Seriously a set of tires for the pickup runs more than a grand mounted and balanced, an alignment costs another $400. if they only have to adjust it, parts are extra. Oh yeah, replacing a wheel is about $200. If I can't avoid the hole I slow down folks behind me can slow down AND swear at me too if the wish. I don't care. Oh yeah a shift knob that weighs a couple lbs. shifting gears for you wouldn't need a pothole up here, a "smooth" road has enough woops in it to do that without missing pavement and caverns. Just an ice heave in spring is enough to pop you out of gear and we have a tree shift automatic. You have to know where the ice heaves grow and they can show up over night. So yeah, I'll have to pass on a 2 1/4" dia. steel sphere shift knob too resplendant forged coolness not withstanding. Frosty The Lucky. Spoken like a true Glenn Hwy driver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Are you old enough to remember the, "I drove the Tudor and survived" bumper stickers? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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