ThomasPowers Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 I have found steel pieces that had rolling laps included in them before---error from the mill. As for 3 blows: in the winter when it's below 0 degC in the shop and you are forging thin section like blades---3 blows may be one or two too many! Preheating the anvil and hammer helps some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Nobody can tell you how long a piece needs to stay in YOUR fire to reach proper forging heat, Tom. As Thomas says a single blow may be all you get per heat. Good steal can be worked cold if you normalize it when it begins to work harden. I'm not formal about normalizing when the steel gets silly thin I only bring it to low red and let it "cool" in front of my forge allowing the Dragon's breath to prolong the cooling cycle. Working cold in a normalized or annealed state works much better when the steel gets thin enough. Trying to work it hot can mean just contacting the anvil face under the blow of a hammer can chill it fast enough to quench it into a state too brittle to move under a second blow without failing. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Cheech, nice looking piece.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 14 hours ago, Frazer said: CGL, hopefully you see this and it finds you well. Here is my tribute to what I'm going to call your "elemental line" of bottle openers. I saw it and I like it very much! I am doing well. Thank you. It makes me happy to have inspired someone. If you think of something else, please give it a go and show it off. I'm going to try and get out today and work out another idea and see how it goes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheechWizard Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 thanks JLP! i think i may start with bigger stock so i have material to draw out some cheeks, but for learning it was perfect as it was very hard to slit n drift the eye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 The workshop does not fit a chandelier. Had to hang on a nearby tree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Nice Alex.. another beauty in the making. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Glad I won't have to change the lightbulbs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, jlpservicesinc said: another beauty in the making. Thank! It will be like this, but larger in size. 4 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: Glad I won't have to change the lightbulbs! I agree! There is a solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Excellent! Will there be a hinged metal cover for the crank with similar decorations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 alexandr, there seems to be no limit to your skills. Very nice. There is however, a limit to MY skills... Frazer, if you read this, it was a big fail in the shop today. Usually I don't mind showing anything I make, but I don't even want to show this opener. I did learn what I need to do for next time I think, so it's not a failure, but a learning experience to be more positive. Just a design change is in order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frazer Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Alexandr, really incredible work. Absolutely beautiful. CGL, well now you have to show it! Unless you've buried it somewhere far away at this point! I do sometimes like the mistakes I make when trying something new. I even feel like I (sometimes) learn more from those disasters than I do when everything goes well the first time. Plus it makes the success all the sweeter right?? At least that's what I tell myself anyway. I made myself a new strop today, longer and wider than my last one, and I bought the hardware that time. New one is much nicer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 That thing is in the scrap pile. I'd spend more time explaining what's wrong than what's right with it. The ring and the tab were great. But from the neck down, it has serious issues! I've got to make a run to the metal sales and get some stock better suited for it. Good work on the hardware for the strop. I need to get one of those. I use an old belt to strop knives with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frazer Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Well I look forward to seeing the final product! A belt is more than adequate I'm sure, I use mine for a straight razor so I like having it where I can leave it hanging in the bathroom and not look out of place for people when they walk in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Well, hopefully it'll be worthy of showing A nice strop like you made would be much better than the belt I use. Especially for a straight razor. Don't own one of those as I have no need for one obviously and my husband keeps a beard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeMarechal Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Made a pair of pickuptongs for powerhammer-work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Finished another chandelier, it remains to install. A bee swarm grafted onto a tree on which a chandelier hung. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Another epic chandelier build Alexandre, you're a one man awesomeness factory! My only question is, was the bee hive hanging in the tree when you hung the chandelier or was it hung there to capture the swarm? Perhaps be hives might make a nice light theme? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Bees, they always want the *fancy* dwelling locations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 I think that's called a "swarm box", designed to help capture swarming bees by giving them an attractive-looking home all ready to move into. The beekeeper raises it into a tree (either next to an existing swarm or in preparation for swarming season) and lowers it back down when a swarm settles in; the colony can then be moved to a new hive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 5 hours ago, Frosty said: was the bee hive hanging in the tree when you hung the chandelier or was it hung there to capture the swarm? Bees flew in 2 hours after removing the chandelier. I'm starting a new job. Spiral Chandelier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Got my son to help me make a deck for the bottom of the hammer/stock rack: Which now holds all my long stock: And folds back nicely against the wall: And frees up a lot of floor space: I’m going to call that a success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 When you say you're "Starting" a spiral chandelier I assume you meant ANOTHER spiral chandelier or you're the fastest maker I've ever heard of! It's going to be another spectacular piece of lighting, I'll be watching for photos of it's completion. Looks good John, about what I was thinking. You might still want to put a sill across the stock rack side so bars can't kick out when you move or bump it. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 That rack looks good to me and your son wearing hearing protection while using a power tool did my heart good too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 He’s autistic, so he’s very sensitive to noise. When I asked him to help, the first thing he said was “WHERE ARE MY EAR DEFENDERS?!?” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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