blacksmith-450 Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 La vie n’est pas que chance et hasard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 "Life is not only luck and chance". You made some good looking chances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolFisHunt Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Great photo, 450. Thanks for the translation,IFC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacksmith-450 Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Thank you dudes. Sorry for my frenchie post but sometime it is easier for me. Anyway Google translate and SLAG are there for us ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Thank you Jasent, and Conrad. Jasent, I like your idea of feathers for wind chimes. I think it would be a good looking piece. Conrad, the profile of your knife is very pleasing to the eye. Can't wait to see it finished. Nice dice blacksmith-450. Good photography also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 2 hours ago, blacksmith-450 said: Thank you dudes. Sorry for my frenchie post but sometime it is easier for me. Anyway Google translate and @SLAG are there for us ! In this instance also include Mr. I Dragon. Bon soir mon ami Mr. 450. SLAG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Went to the NM Artist Blacksmith Association meeting Saturday. Robb Gunter was the demonstrator, (some of y'all may know of him from the Gunter/Schuler method of anvil repair), he demonstrated hollow forging of pipe and tube. Showed some useful tricks for doing a Twisted newel post of tubing, bamboo from blackpipe and even did a 3D apple with blossom, knobs on the base stem, etc. Got home in time to make another simple coat hook for my office door, forging out the body of a RR spike longer, not wider---my straight peen with the 1" diameter peen is handy for that and I trued the sides with the screw press. Like the last one I punched the hole with my Whitney punch and put a strip of duct tape down the back and they are holding my computer bag and coat right now. I also notched and folded and welded up that chunk of ????? I have previously mentioned. Going to have a friend arc weld a handle to it and start truing it up into a billet and than into a blade---if it sparks well. May see about getting a test done on it to see what alloy(s) it was to start with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Shimanek Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 My fabrication table is 4'x8' and has been collecting odds and ends from constant ongoing projects; i finally got it all cleaned off. (Probably for the first time since i made it). I use it for everything from steel fab, vice station, and sword polishing; as a flat space it tends to attract objects, so it was nice to get it all clean, which will facilitate some upcoming projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 I've been told that a clean workbench is one of the signs of the Apocalypse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasent Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 I’ve heard the same thing about reloading benches. If it’s clean it’s brand new or the owner died Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolFisHunt Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Fly tying tables suffer from the same malady. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 But make a bigger mess when you sneeze violently on them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Thomas that sounds like it was both a great time and a great learning time.. I love demonstrations like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Order for a batch of non-standard skewers. Made a sample. Stainless steel, mahogany handle. Length 35" VID_20191209_223503.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Ooh, I like those. A good solution to the constant problem of food twisting on the skewer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 We just used broken epee blades for skewers like that, thoroughly cleaned of course.. Some 19th century and earlier grills used semi cylindrical bars on a slant and collected the "drippings" for use in basting, gravy, etc. Harder to wash; but burning them off worked ok... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Love those skewers, simple but elegant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 I made my first meat flipper and toasting fork, with bottle openers on each. I’m not happy with the openers, the end of my horn is too large so I had to stick a large drift in the Pritchel and use that to shape them. I won’t try another until I make proper tools to work with, but at least I’m identifying what I did wrong and what I need to do to improve. These will be going on the “learning wall” or “what’s that” as my wife says when I show her my latest work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 I don't think the opener ends look bad at all. But I understand not being satisfied with your own work. The twists are nice. You should put them to use instead of putting them aside Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 CGL, thanks I will use them until I make a set that I am happy with. I had a lot of trouble with the openers, due to not having proper tools, they work, but it was a fight to get them there. Best part was testing them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenskpr Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 One down, one to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolFisHunt Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Quick and dirty mount for an angle grinder. Not as slick as some that I've seen, but serviceable. I also did some work on a drill press vise to keep it from the scrap pile. Also serviceable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Good looking job, but I can’t see what you have to secure it I have a large bench vice, that swivels, flat jaws one side and round jaws the other for round stock that I can chuck my 4 1/2 inch grinder, or my portable bandsaw in to use, but I’m always looking for better ideas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Looks to me like he screwed the handle in through a strap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Crew Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Been working on a set of custom stairs. Single stringer in the middle vertical 3/4 round pickets plug welded into the tread plates. The wood worker has to slide his wood treads down over 6 pickets on each tread plate. After the treads are installed I have a flat bar which plug welds on top of the pickets. Drilling a 13/16 hole at a 31.8 degree pitch on 1-1/4 x 1/4 flat bar has been fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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