July 17, 20241 yr I was just twitting you about showing us an example. Laser engraving is done on virtually everything, a search for "custom engraving" showed me a few more pages of hits than I want to look through. Trophies and commemorative plaques seems to be a big mover but they engrave anything. I'll bet you can pick the font you like and they'll size it and turn on the laser "printer" engraver. I'd make phone calls rather than try contacting them through a website. Website contact still stinks horribly. Real people are the key to getting what you want. Frosty The Lucky.
July 17, 20241 yr George, I haven't gotten the guards done. The complete sword is my model. A cheap mall version of what I am making. There's another smith near me that has a foundry that'll be happy to help me cast the parts. I've never done any brass castings so this should be fun... I've seen them too Frosty, I'm curious as to how well the etching or engraving holds up. I don't like making wall hangers.
July 17, 20241 yr It was probably marine bronze it doesn't corrode like brass will. Silicon bronze is less expensive, yellow like brass and is very corrosion resistant. Engraving is deeper than a single acid etch but they can do multiples though they tend to get wider the deeper in an upside down taper sort of thing. It's excellent prep for inlay. Laser etching can just keep repeating the pattern till it's deep enough. Neither technique cares if it's hardened. Frosty The Lucky.
July 17, 20241 yr Good afternoon, all. Been a busy few mornings here at the shop making tooling for the new treadle hammer we have out of some 3/4" round 1045 and 4140. Finally had a chance to use the gantry crane table we picked up 2 years ago, and made a quick tutorial video for the rest of the folks at our shop. Treadle hammer tool making.mp4
July 18, 20241 yr I used to do glass etching on cars. That was years ago so no pics. That was even when computers were big bulky things but i could print designs out on sticky paper, not sure what it was actually called but they knew what i wanted when i bought it. I would meticulously cut out the design with an exacto, put it on the window and use a rotary engraver to etch the glass.
July 18, 20241 yr I know what you're talking about but it's been so long I don't remember the name. When I was younger I had a couple acquaintances that etched glass, they cut the design though an adhesive backed rubber sheet to mask the glass and sand blasted to etch. They painted over a stencil to make the resist on what they wanted etched with acid. Dad painted his rifles with wax and scratched his and my name through it and etched with acid. Frosty The Lucky.
July 18, 20241 yr 8 hours ago, BillyBones said: print designs out on sticky paper, not sure what it was actually called Peel-and-stick paper? Con-Tact is probably the best-known brand, although that name always makes me think of the politeness employed by scammers.
July 18, 20241 yr Frosty, I used a small air brush sand blaster sometimes, it helped to smooth out the design. But i found that an engraver worked much better for fine details. I tried the acid stuff they make but never had a very good result. I have Psalm 144:1 engraved on my 1911. I had that professionally done though and i think they used a laser. JHCC. not sure if Con-Tact was it, most of what i see as contact paper is usually vinyl, this was like printer paper with a sticky backing like the contact paper. I went to the local big box hardware store looking for contact paper not long ago, i asked the girl in the paint/wall paper part of the store about it and she had no clue as to what i was talking about.
July 18, 20241 yr Search printable sticker paper, also just an idea I have seen others do. You could print on regular paper and cut out as mentioned, then use spray adhesive to stick it to the surface to be etched.
July 18, 20241 yr Maybe call a shop that does custom paint jobs. If they don't know the probably will know who does. Frosty The Lucky.
July 19, 20241 yr I think the name of the product is frisket paper used by painters as a masking material.
July 19, 20241 yr 3 years ago I installed a support for a climbing rose. The other day I installed another one in the same area. The Chinese "junk" will be removed during winterization. In our cold climate it is very difficult to grow such roses.
July 19, 20241 yr I've been away from the forge for so long now, everything is growing rust. Been hot and humid here like 100/100. Not good forging weather. But I did manage to work on another project which involves a lot less fire and heat. The landing gear on my Taylorcraft project was in need of some attention. The right side had been repaired some years ago, and doesn't match the left side. So, I set about replacing the tie strut on the left side to match the right side. Using the old one as a pattern, I made a new one. I went down to the local aircraft parts supplier, and picked up some 4130 seamless streamlined tubing, and a piece of 4130 flat stock. Came back, and went to work. I ran out of Argon on the first weld. So much for tig. So, I had to gas weld the whole thing. Was good practice. The end where it attaches to the axle The old one with measurement New one installed
July 19, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Frosty said: Which are the Chinese junk, Alex? Frosty The Lucky. Hi Jer! The bent supports on which the rose now lies. Perhaps the translation is not correct. In Russian it "барахло". Penultimate photo.
July 20, 20241 yr I'm still not clear Alex, you have lots of roses on lots of trellises, most have bent or arched sections. However, not being clear about something is the best time to sum up what I've heard and seen and make an educated (I HOPE!) guess. It's even more fun working through a translation program both ways! By curved pieces I'm thinking you are talking about what we'd call arches. Each one has two vertical straight ends and they're connected by an arched member, not quite a half circle in profile. The structure is 3 of these trellis arches, the inner ends connected by a ring on the ground and another curving structure maybe head high attaching where the arches meet the vertical sections. There is one at least similar to the one I've described covered in roses (Like almost everything else in your yard) The 3rd factor I'm adding to my guess is. You've been posting pictures of the new bare structure as you built it all year. Oh slap me for an idiot. Penultimate means top. The top photo, yes? Sometimes I get so engrossed with figuring something out I miss the answer that's waving a flag in my face! <sigh> Frosty The Lucky.
July 20, 20241 yr 16 hours ago, Frosty said: Oh slap me for an idiot. Penultimate means top. The top photo, yes? Jer ! The penultimate one is the one second from the bottom. This is what the purchased supports looked like. One of the meanings in Russian is “Junk”: something of poor quality, fragile.
July 20, 20241 yr Okay, slap me for an idiot again Alex, I deserve it. I could've looked it up easy as typing but oh NO, don't do something logical. Well now I know the Russian word for my thinking this weekend. <sigh> The cheap junk is sagging along the long straight bar under the roses. I HOPE! Frosty The Lucky.
July 20, 20241 yr Finished another job. I brought a bench and installed a canopy over it. I ordered rattan flowerpots, and on the way I stopped at a garden center to buy flowers. The customer was satisfied. First I made a table, a chandelier, a barbecue, soft windows.
July 20, 20241 yr Today was rainy and cooler. So I got a few hours of forge time. Got the blade project forged and ready for finishing, then heat treat. It's pretty straight and I think this one might come out alright. Blade is 19 1/2", plus nakago. I'll finish with a file, and drawknife, then heat treat, and final sharpen, and polish. I still have to punch the hole for the mekugi, I may try to drill it.
July 20, 20241 yr Alexandr, "penultimate" is a good word. And the prefix "pen-" is handy. When explaining the meaning of the word "penannular" I explain that an annulus is a circle, a doughnut is an annulus, and that "pen-" means "almost." So, penultimate is almost last and a peninsula is almost an island. G
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