February 18, 20224 yr 2 hours ago, JHCC said: Speaking of which: I appreciate that you are showing us the cosmotized phase of your implicitly grevious bodily injury. Quite a spread, Aric.
February 18, 20224 yr JHCC You may want to try to remove that ring from your finger, just to be sure that you can. Das, You plan on adding a tea candle to the heart on the left?
February 18, 20224 yr Beautiful roses, Aric. I admire the skill it takes to make them, one I am lacking. Keep up the good work....
February 18, 20224 yr Thanks. Had a bunch of different ideas for the chain hearts. I,ll be making more and a tea light candle holder is an excellent platform idea. Hope you heal up quick John. Scott, you could definately make roses like this. You just need to learn how.
February 18, 20224 yr 27 minutes ago, Daswulf said: Hope you heal up quick John. So far, so good. Much less pain, and fairly little blistering. 28 minutes ago, Daswulf said: 1 hour ago, Nodebt said: I admire the skill it takes to make them, one I am lacking. Scott, you could definately make roses like this. You just need to learn how. There are some good videos on YouTube. Roy Adams' is quite good (and very detailed!): 33 minutes ago, Daswulf said: Had a bunch of different ideas for the chain hearts. Portraits of Anne and Nancy Wilson?
February 18, 20224 yr Really like the roses too. Love that they are stainless. I made a hook from a spike remnant, another center punch from a coil spring and heat treated a couple blades Ive been working on. Good times
February 18, 20224 yr After work, I had just enough time to clean up two more corner brackets for my wife's raised bed project. It's the old trade off: Money vs Time and since she runs the money budget, guess what tends to get chosen...OTOH she's happy to let me go to the scrapyard Saturday and "find more stuff" for the project!
February 18, 20224 yr 12 hours ago, BillyBones said: hold the black end and hit the red end I must admit that even while following this sage advice I've caused several injuries. Turns out aluminum conducts heat. The more you know.
February 18, 20224 yr Silver and gold too! I tell folks that they can't hot work a piece of copper that's long enough to be held in a bare hand. (One reason that Ti tongs are nice is that they don't transmit heat well.)
February 18, 20224 yr Thomas, I think that you should send me some gold and silver just to test that theory. Might as well send a pair of Ti tongs while you're at it!
February 18, 20224 yr Sort of a "Trial by Ordeal"; no I don't want to put you through that. I do have a lot of students that are surprised that you can actually hot the workpiece in your hand for the first part of the first project I teach. Then when they move to the second part they learn how difficult getting used to tongs can be.
February 19, 20224 yr 11 hours ago, JHCC said: Anne and Nancy Wilson I'm not good with people portraits, maybe a barracuda. Nice work Rojo. I like what you did for the spike hook.
February 19, 20224 yr In addition to forging some elements for an as-yet unfinished project, I did some further cutting of welding tanks into smaller bits.
February 19, 20224 yr Tank bodies are what we used for one of the SOFA gas forge building workshop; one of our members had an in with a Hydro Test business and they gave us all the tanks free as long as we chopped them onsite. Last night I wire brushed the last corner brackets for my wife's raised bed project. They will be ready to fill by tonight! Today scrapyard and working on tools from there got an old woodworker's bar clamp and a combo fence tool back to working condition...may hint that another gallon of WD 40 would be a great Father's day gift...
February 19, 20224 yr Jennifer, thanks for another great video. I have gained a tremendous amount of knowledge by watching your work, such as how to make the tomahawks I recently finished. This is the finished product of the hawks I posted earlier this month, but couldn't finish because I was on the road. These hawks were a group of "firsts" for me; my first wrapped eye tomahawks with a high carbon bit, my third and forth forge welds (thanks to all on here for forge welding advise,especially Swedefiddle's analogy about hitting jello, i'm old school ship yard, fab shop, pipelinner "get a bigger hammer and hit it harder) and my first leather work. The mouse hawk on the left has a couple of small divots in the weld by the eye, that I could have ground out, but the rest of the weld is good. The weld on the right came out good. The mouse hawk blade is not twisted, that's just my poor photography
February 19, 20224 yr I Started the morning with some pritchel holds. Me and my cousin, who was down this way got a good start at 9 or so. We moved on to a 7 layer 15N20 and 1084 stack and squeezed that for a bit. Then... He had a go at a piece of 40 layer, as a arrow head. Then fitted a couple quarters to close out.
February 20, 20224 yr Today I tied a broom onto a handle I forged last week. This is the first time I've tried broom making; I'm pretty stoked with how it turned out, even though I made a couple mistakes. It is surprisingly well-balanced, and the looped head rests well in my hand. I've been wanting to make complete fireplace sets, but I also wanted to offer hand-tied brooms instead of purchasing a manufactured broom head. After this first attempt, I am confident I will be able to offer high-quality brooms that will last. The handle is forged from ~20" of 3/8" square stock, with a ~2" ID head loop. It is ~30" long overall. I added two layers of broom corn, and tied it with black tarred nylon twine and red waxed hemp twine to make the colors of my Alma Mater.
February 20, 20224 yr Les, those are great and awesome firsts! Nice work Fat Badger. Awesome broom Mothman. Is that a broom loom in the one picture?
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