January 18, 20224 yr I don't know, what would it be counting and how could we tell? Frosty The Lucky.
January 19, 20224 yr On 10/6/2021 at 4:13 PM, Frosty said: Oh! That's pretty darned demonic Michael! I'm thinking poster material there, be a great flag over a booth at a conference. Frosty The Lucky. Thanks Frosty, I'll suggest it to the smith who came up with it. CNC Plasma cut templates that are shaped hot on hollowed wooden blocks. Anna demonstrated these at Roaring Camp near Santa Cruz last August. Heating the sheet metal in a coal fire. It was a very accessible project for kids and newbies. She had a whole stack of dragon blanks and other animals. The blocks had round and elongated hollows to shape the body and the wing ribs, and went into the slack tub after each heat. The blocks are expendable over a day of making these. Great fun! I'm trying to get her to design a Balrog!
January 19, 20224 yr 21 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: TW, don't egg him on! Thomas, it wasn’t me! He was incubating the pun all along! Michael, those are pretty cool, I see various plasma cut patterns for sale online occasionally but I’ve never ordered one to try them out
January 19, 20224 yr TW, that can happen when you have a fertile imagination... Pretty easy to cut wings out of sheetmetal with a beverly shear and then rivet them to a forged body for a dragon. Fold forming can help get the wings more "bat like". I did small one for my daughter once using an old electric fence post, 3/8" dia mild steel with a triangular sheetmetal vane for driving into the ground.
January 19, 20224 yr If I tried that I’d probably end up molting the metal… That sounds pretty cool Thomas!
January 22, 20224 yr I guess the first one would pass for a dragon, The next is more like a cat, And who knows what the third one is.
April 19, 20224 yr A good looking forge and fire dragon. Is the pan/table around the firepot lined with clay to prevent the pan from cracking?
April 19, 20224 yr Well that works. There is a forge where we hold club meetings that is made from an old ford tractor differential.
April 24, 20224 yr I use a circa 1937 Banjo rear end axle cover for my forge firepot---it's in it's 4th forge right now and I have it's twin in case I finally wear it out.
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