Jim Coke Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Greetings Alaxandr, I have been on many institutions by myself . I know how hard it is sometimes. I usually get up the ladder and forget the tool I need .. DAAA . Stay safe I hate ladders. Forge on and make beautiful things Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Laynne, it seems like I always manage to post right after Alexandr... Speaking of which, beautiful work Alexandr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
671jungle Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Started leveling the ground for the shop. Dimensions 6’ X 14’ with stump as base for anvil. Will be equipped with 1 man door and 1 swing up door. Thanks to Thomas Powers for suggesting garage style doors on other threads. I also redressed the rail anvil similar to Charles R Stevens set up. Thanks Charles. 1 hour ago, jlpservicesinc said: carving hatchet. Nice! Do you carve? I would like to carve a totem pole some day. Quick Question: What do you use the side shelf protruding from the anvil for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 primarily scroll work for the side shelf. the scroll can work right under the side shelf instead of bumping into the side of the anvil like on a London or anvil with no side shelf. But it's a great place to use just like the corner of the faces on a normal london or North german pattern anvil and can also be used like a set used in the swage when doing knife work. this is a right hand anvil and I have it pointed as if it's a lefty anvil. the shelf should be on the other side away from me with the horn to the left. I technically need a left handed one. i don't carve per say. but I do make hammer handles and ax handles and such. The reason why 3 in as nearly many weeks is because they are tough to make vs a sandwiched type like wrapped tomahawk or even a regular ax where the tool steel is merely put in the middle between the sides. I'm just now starting to feel like I'm starting to get back into forging shape after taking off 13 years. Brilliant railroad track anvil construction. LOVE It. Your a smart cookie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goods Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Well, not today, but the last two weeks prep for today’s and tomorrow’s demo. Not show are three 6’ tripods and tramell hooks. (Also not shown, the stack of failed tomahawks...) Keep it fun! David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 6 hours ago, 671jungle said: I also redressed the rail anvil similar to Charles R Stevens set up. Thanks Charles. The radius on the web makes drawing out much easier. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAnotherViking Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 After taking a few months break from forging, I've started back, working on a double first. First billet of pattern welded steel, and first knive. After heat treat, i've a couple of small delaminations visible on the blade, but they don't look too deep, so fingers crossed they'll grind out... nothing fancy, just a big twist and going for a bold, high contrast pattern.... i'll post a few pics once i've got the final grinding finished, and get it etched (viking style seax). I had a little offcut from that steel, so decided to make a Mjölnir necklace out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazyassforge Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 David, really cool hawks! Bill D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
671jungle Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 14 hours ago, jlpservicesinc said: I'm just now starting to feel like I'm starting to get back into forging shape after taking off 13 years. As far as results, I dont see any ring rust. Your skills speak! And its all good! Technique is like riding a bike. Once learned it sticks. Muscle memory usually makes for a speedy comeback unless injured. After using the rail anvil for a bit and learned a bit more hammer control it was time to make it more useful. Lefty?! Me too! It has its advantages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 IRing rust: If you had seen me forge before I quit.. You would be shocked how fast metal can move by hand. I looked through my journal the other day. A spring lock was 1.5hrs start to finish. It would take me 3.5hrs now. A carving hatchet like shown now I think of as a full 6hr demo. But back in the day was 2.5-3hrs start to finish including hardening and tempering. I can forge out to near 90% in 4hrs but it is a struggle for sure. I have thought so to about being knowing vs doing, back when I was in my 20's and even into my 30's. ( I only used to forge when I had paying work and if it was once a week i was still ontop of my game).. I know now that is not the case. the only way for me to get back into shape and keep it, is to forge 3 or 4 times a week. this would have me back to full steam in about 6 months. I'm 3 years out of retirement and while I see steady improvement across the board I can also see the deficiencies. I forge once a month or so now, if not a longer time in between. . Knowing how to do something and then actually being able to apply it is a different ball game all together. Many of the earlier "How to". Videos show this slowness. its fun to watch videos from last year and even ones older as there is a certain understanding that simply gets missed when one does not practice enough to put it into application. Saying vs doing.. Still good videos and great from a beginner aspect as the forging is slower and more watchable. As I have gotten older I have found I fully know how to do something and can explain it, but the ability with "Hand to eye to Hand" is slower. this slowness is the age related aspect. Proper lighting is crucial now. LOL. I can't see details in the metal as clearly though I have pretty good vision. So to stay on top of the game regular forging is what I need. Again, 3 or 4 days a week is ideal. During the summer I do a bunch of demos which by the end of the season I'm feeling pretty good. But then I do very little forging during the winter other than for videos. which are about 1-1.5hrs of forge time, once a month. LOL.. Hardly practice. I'm a righty but think like a lefty maybe.. Getting the Blacksmith teaching facility up will change a lot of what is going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkie Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Jennifer, sometimes slower is better. That way, the little (and maybe bigger) mistakes come on not so fast!! LOL. On the other hand, with your smithing skills, I feel that mistakes are small and very few between. Take your time, smell the roses and enjoy every minute of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Arkie, I'm not a journey person. I'm a result person. it's the end game that is always the prize. Sooner I am done the better. . LOL. Back in the day and even today I look at everything as a time frame. Sooner it's done the less it costs both me and the person at the other end. . For a beginner I feel taking ones time is important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 I understand the eyesight thing. Just today, we adjusted the lights in my smithy because I don't always catch everything. I bring stuff out into the sunlight now to get a better look, then it comes in the house for inspection. I don't have to wear glasses all the time, but for reading, definitely now. I spent a couple of hours forging today, but I wasn't really feeling it. But looking over what I did do, it looked pretty good. The actual forging part anyway. I work from the right side of the anvil also. It feels more comfortable to me. But if there's an operation that would be better suited, I hop over to the other side. It takes me awhile to forge things, but I'm more concerned with technique and quality right now. Hopefully when I get down what I need to do to for an excellent forging, I'll be able to get it done faster as well. It's amazing that you only forge once a month and you turn out such expert work, Jennifer. All your years of hard work really show in what you do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Yesterday’s work. Two steak-turners and one of the three leaf hooks. It is the one that looks nothing like the other three. The three that each look something like the other are things I made months ago to see if I could forge 3 identical hooks. Close, but not close enough. All the girly things on the table were made by my oldest daughter. She is trying to raise money for an autism service dog and was given a free booth at a local craft fair. So far she has raised just short of $1400 USD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Good work DHarris. I try to get things to match and it doesn't always work out, but I'm getting better at it. Good on your daughter for being able to raise so much money with her crafts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Goods on the scrapped hawks: stick black iron pipe in them as "handles" and arc weld them together and make a gate to the smithy from them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 On 10/19/2019 at 7:34 PM, 671jungle said: with stump as base for anvil Good grief man! How tall are you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
671jungle Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 I was wondering who was gonna step up! I just don't know what the upgrade from the rail anvil will be so I left a little on the top. Speaking of anvils, I may have a lead on some forklift tines and large axles from a couple of rental and repair shops. Trying not to pay $300 for a 100Lb chunk of 4140 from the steel supply. As for what i did in my yet to be built shop: a fairy dagger. My Love and I are going to New Orleans for Halloween as Tinkerbell and Rufio from "HOOK". Tink wears a dagger on her leg. The blade was forged from a coil spring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
671jungle Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 2 hours ago, BillyBones said: Good grief man! How tall are you? previous post was in response to Billy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KYCATS Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 Spider pumpkins. Quick holloween decoration. Used 1/4 round worked cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 Hmm beef it up to 1" rod and a bigger pumpkin........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 This weekend (birthday weekend!) played with the new anvil after setting it up and then finished the Hammer In Demo project taught by Logan Hirsch and Andy Dohner, skulls out of 2 inch square. Reforged a small cold chisel into a punch to make the nose slits, used a butcher to push the teeth round under the skull and cut the teeth. Logan was saying these techniques work down as small as 1.25 inch square and he usually does skulls like this in 3 inch material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KYCATS Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 48 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: Hmm beef it up to 1" rod and a bigger pumpkin........ I do plan to beef it up for a bigger pumpkin, but I think 1/2'' will be plenty for the pumpkins I'm willing to carry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 Motorized? Like the Wild Wild West movie perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolFisHunt Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 Too funny! Snorted vodka out my nose, now my eyes are watering. I made some progress on the indoor forge build. The flue is through the wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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