Ben Hoover Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 No real forging involved, but I made a new version of an old filing jig. Grabbed some Tee nuts, 5/16 rod, a heim bolt, some 5/16 wing nuts, threaded rod, a bolt and bit of wood and glue/screws and Frankenfile was born.... Makes adjusting the angle a lot easier and I don't have to go from one hole to the other in reality for most of what I need it for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 Well now, isn't THAT a clever idea!!!!! That all-thread makes a lot of sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rojo Pedro Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 Love the jig Ben! Made a couple S hooks. A hardy something or another from a bit of pavement breaker (very hard) straightened a RR clip (very very hard). Lastly forged ground and heat treated a ball punch from coil spring. Fun times ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Hoover Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 Great work Rojo. My new forge is due in Wednesday, and this coming weekend I am going to get to do some hammering. May have to make some of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Finished up a belt buckle I’ve been playing with, decorated with the design of the Chartres Cathedral labyrinth chased into the face. Not at all happy with the results, but a fun learning piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 JHCC, Now, all you have to do is use the grooves to inlay brass wire. ;-) (Good luck in calculating the length you will need.) I think your dissatisfaction may be from the fact that the lines are "wiggly". I think it is cool and I'm sure you didn't knock this out in 15 minutes. "By hammer and hand all arts do stand." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 First attempt John? Ambitious project. I'm with George, I like it. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 JHCC, did you transfer the design to the steel first? I forget his name, but he has a post on how to do this and get good results. Since you aren’t happy with it, I expect you will do it over. I look forward to seeing it if you do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Drew it directly on the steel; the punch mark in the center was for the center leg of the compass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 What do you think you would do differently to make it better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Draw the pattern more clearly and follow it better. Make some slightly different tooling to use in the tighter curves and corners. Not start out with the wrong tool that necessitated my hammering out some earlier work and starting over. Think about better ways to hold tool and workpiece while hammering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 I first tried a Dremmel tool. What I resulted with was something that vaguely resembled my own very crude attempt at drawing a wolf. Looked like something a mother would say “Oh how precious! Let me glue a magnet to that and put it on the fridge door with your cute T-Rex eating a cave man.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 John; Flood it with braze and grind it clean on a belt grinder! Rojo, hardy hole tooling, a hardy is a chisel. I have an ex-pavement breaker hardy; found the broken off "chisel" end at the scrapyard and forged the broken shaft to fit the hardy hole, been using it about 30 years now with lots of students! Not too hard as it's easier to dress the hardy than a hammer face. I also had to forge out the shaft end so I had something to hit to drive it out when a student used it in an anvil it was not supposed to go in! Too depressed to work in the shop after work; but then storms swept through just to the north of us and it was so cool outside I had to go out and finish the walkway. No rain for us; sigh. My wife says that after I pay off the hoard perhaps I could borrow the money for the electricity. With my job likely to disappear I don't want to dig into our savings any! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 That would just highlight the things I don’t like about it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Ok, clean it up with laser engraving, inlay it with tungsten carbide, cast it in a block of basalt and drop it in a trench near a subduction zone. Out of sight, Out of Mind! With the domed surface have you thought of casting a tin backer for it for when you are working it? (Lead is "traditional" but tin is user friendly...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 I'd thought about lead or pitch, but tin is an interesting thought. 10 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: cast it in a block of basalt and drop it in a trench near a subduction zone. Along the lines of the Tethys Project? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 But is it art; or is it littering? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Yes and No. To both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Perhaps some of it is littoralling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 It's certainly more conceptual than figurative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 I had to look that one up. Talk about hobbies. About dropping things near subduction faults. When disposing of nuclear waste was really being fretted about I saw one scheme for storage. Plant a spent rod or whatever in a large container of sand and fuze it with an electric arc. Of course they were fretting about how "short" a time a block of fuzed silica a couple meters on a side would last before releasing the radioactives. I figured one would last a couple million years easy, especially if dropped directly into a subduction fault. Fuze them in a streamlined shape for good ocean floor penetration and aim for the fault on the subducting side. It's not like it'd pollute lava in any measurable way say 50 million years from now would it? Of course now we just recycle waste until we've squeezed all the energy we can from it and make bullets from the depleted uranium. Problem solved and the magma is safe. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 But as the radioactives came from magma in the first place you are interrupting the great circle of half-life! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Yes, it's my purpose to interrupt as many natural cycles as I can before I assume ambient temperature. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 You're the Uni-Cyclier! I knew it! Down here you will have to warm up to ambient, 3 of the next 10 days are supposed to be 100 degF and up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjdaggett Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Does the draw knife draw? It looks excellent. That might be a good one for me to work towards; been needing one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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