Glenn Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 Can you use Feng shui in a blacksmith shop? Will it even work in that situation with all the metal, scale, fire, smoke, etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 Other than arranging the forge, anvil & vise for the best flow, I'd say nope because clutter & chaos is normal in my shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Feng Shui is a state of being, not a thing. Arranging your work space for efficiency, safety and comfort is a must or you're not a real tool user. Sitting in the obsidian pits up Davis creek way you can tell which pits or places in them where they just struck cores as opposed to where they flaked points. The work stations were just seats dug around the edges of the pits or spots near surface collection sites. However, if you've ever done any knapping you'll find there are ways to arrange your tools, raw materials and where you want the waste to fall. Cores have different waste and you need a place to put them when you're finished. Then there is the convenient place for the blocks you're going to strike the cores from, they're heavier so they're usually higher and closer. Blade knapping sites were very Feng Shui in their nature. Last but far from least, they were like large conversation pits. Group knaps so to speak. It scales to everything how you arrange our pillow in bed to city layouts. I'll bet when we can see well enough we'll discover the Feng Shui of the universe. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 I've got flung suie all over my shop! I sweep it up on occasion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exo313 Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 I was caught knapping once... then I woke up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Great, another flaky character! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 One step between vice, anvil and forge is enough feng shui for me. (And since feng shui translates as wind/water we'll throw in the forge blower and the quench tub as well). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron woodrow Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 I need a steady flow of rust and heavy equipment to create a sense of gravity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 It's your magnetic personality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Wow, that's heavy, far out! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Funny you should mention sweeping the shop...my smithy is right next to the property line and my neighbor planted a row of Cottonwood trees along that property line. Since my shop has open gables the floor had "rafts" of cottonwood cotton on it when I visited it last weekend. I have mentioned from time to time having a shop with a dirt floor and metal walls and a metal roof. Sweeping would be a pain with the dirt floor so I isolated a patch and then dropped a match...Quite amusing and much like wearing a flannel shirt and having the fuzz burn off it...repeat till most was gone. A bit more soot in the smithy is undetectable... NOT SUGGESTED FOR PEOPLE WITH LOTS OF FLAMMABLES IN THEIR SHOP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 it might be difficult to light but if you added some aluminium "dust" to your anvil dandruff the result might be quite detectable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Thomas, any use gathering it up to light a coal forge? Big fan blowing out a big door might clean it up as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Not enough fuel density; take a cotton ball and shred it till it covers a square foot; amusing but not useful. Daswulf---did you really make a suggest to NOT use fire???? Moderator! Moderator! Das is talking dirty! (When I finally get to retire and move home I'm going to wait till a day with strong winds and rent a backpack blower and blow the dust, cobwebs and cotton out of the entire shops!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Got a big attic fan out of a dumpster and have that on my mind till I mount it in my shop wall. Going to have to make a cage for summer and shudder for winter time to close it off. Also got this blower from the scrap cleanup deal and its pretty powerful as well. Sorry, just have blowers on my mind and sounds fun to blow cotton puffs around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted July 4, 2018 Author Share Posted July 4, 2018 Das, you need at least one more big fan so you can have a fan club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 Oh, I got one more! Got this blower a few years ago. It's waiting to become a welding fume extractor. Fan club initiated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anvil Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 I think the hard part of using feng shui would be wallering around in the fire trying to figgure whar it burns the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will W. Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 I rearrange the tools in my shop quite often. I usually put them right in the last spot i would think of when i next need them. Now, please excuse me. Where did i put the 10mm socket...?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 "I usually put them right in the last spot i would think of when i next need them. " A true Zen master! "Contemplate the absence of the necessary tool" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 "What is the sound of hammering on no anvil?" "What can be held in a tong with only one jaw?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Well that first one is easy, hammering on the post vise of course. (The air hammering technique also works). Second one is pipe held on a conical jaw inserted into it. Now meditate on "heat with no heat" (I'll answer this one tomorrow...) Anyone else read Zen Flesh Zen Bones? My Apprentice often comments on my "Grandmotherly Kindness"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will W. Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 12 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Now meditate on "heat with no heat" Hmm... bending a piece back and forth quickly will produce quite a bit of heat... im sure if i open my car door at 60 mph and scrub my workpiece on the asphalt, i could produce some heat... angle grinder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Not what I had in mind. Something in use by some smiths currently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shabumi Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Hmmm, "heat with no heat"? Induction forge? Or IIRC there is a video of someone getting a piece of metal hot just by hammering it somewhere on IFI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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