Chimaera Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 13 hours ago, Daswulf said: Really debated painting him Personally I like the bare steel, but that’s just preference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 Nothing quite like the first sale — except maybe the next sale! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 Congrats on the sales Chimaera. Word gets out and you'll be busy. I did clear Jack just in case. My daughter said he needs paint to make him look more like snow. Lol. I have time to decide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimaera Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 Thanks Das. Clear is probably wise, don't want rust. I like the steampunk mechanical look, but a daughter is hard to trump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 In rust we trust but yeah, don't want my final product rusting (when I don't want it to). I have made another reindeer like I posted in the Christmas thread. My daughters have comman-deer-ed them and have been playing with them. Lol I have found that if I want stock for my sales table I not only have to make no mention of it on social media but I also have to hide it from my family. Lol Not an issue when I haven't committed to selling at an event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 I find those hands on Jack interesting. One looks like it's pointing and the other looks like it's beckoning. What did you make them out of? Baling wire? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 Glad it seems like it is supposed to. yeah he is pointing and beckoning as in " hey, You, come Here!" the arms are a couple screw headed bolts and the fingers are the off cuts of some finishing nails that I'll be using the head section for a bunch of ornament size nutty snowmen. Looking at it I think I could have done the fingers a bit better but I'm calling this one done for the build. I do have an idea to make another one with his hands up in the "gonna get you" ghoul position, kinda old Scooby Do bad guy chasing the team style. I have a bunch of smaller snowmen to finish first tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 28 snowmen almost done. Little ones need a wire wheel, scarves and painted then strings. Bigger ones need hats, wire wheeled, scarves and clearcoated. Ran out of wire in my welder and battled with what I thought was a worse problem than it was, so all is good now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natkova Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 IS it posible for blacksmith to make handplane? I mean wooden one? I have drill press, is spring steel good for blade, i have leaf spring steel, maybe i will weld some mild steel to it. Only harder part is i guess making wooden block on drillpress , but wont be hard to drill out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicon Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 https://www.instructables.com/Wooden-Block-Plane-1/ spring steel is okay, a little bit more carbon, some carbides and less Si (usually) would improve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shainarue Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Welp, looks like I'm not getting the tools made before the rain comes. Which means I'm not finishing my winter challenge project until the rain stops... maybe Saturday evening or Sunday. Tonight I went out to start on the hot cut. Went to get the piece of scrap and noticed the bucket of vinegar with a bunch of metal soaking. Remembered what Frosty said about vinegar not just removing rust but also removing the metal that the rust was attached to. Decided I should dump that and clean everything up. Did that and gave tools a blo coat. Then went digging for the scrap piece to use for a hot cut. While looking for that, I found some other pieces of scrap to use for other tools I'd been intending to make. Decided I really needed rivet tools before I needed a hot cut tool. Then decided I needed punches to make said rivet tools, lol So this is everything I've got laid out, ready to be forged into tools so I can finish the winter project! I wanted to do a Dial-A-Hole but didn't have a piece thick enough and big enough to make a circle. So I'll just use this laying flat on the anvil. Ooor... I have an idea of using a bolt that fits the smallest hole with a nut larger than the largest hole and upset the end opposite the threads to fit the pritchel hole.. Then it would be an adjustable positioning pritchel tool. I dunno. Just a thought in case I get tired of chasing the dancing bolster plate around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad J. Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 I got some mostly successful forge welds done. This was the first time I got my propane forge up that hot. I had just replaced all the side bricks so it is no longer losing heat and was running it at about 25 lbs pressure before the tank started to freeze up. I had a little bit of refining left but couldn't get back to that pressure and temp. I refined the welds after that with 6013 rod because mostly isn't completely. I completed the basket twist I was making, stick welded it to the base I made and welded that to my frying pan. I'd have riveted it but I wanted to make dinner in that pan and it was getting close to 8. Even half sanded I was very happy with how it performed. Nothing stuck. BTW, dinner was grilled cheese with a fried egg, a couple pieces of fried ham, and tomato soup. I'm going to do cleanup on it, sanding and finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Painted and assembled. It remains to be taken to the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Why am I not surprised at how beautiful that is Alex? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 56 minutes ago, Frosty said: Why am I not surprised at how beautiful that is Alex? Frosty The Lucky. Hi Jer! Спасибо! Hi Jer! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shainarue Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 That is gorgeous alexandr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 Didn't do anything in my own shop, but I did visit IFI member Steven Bronstein at his shop in Vermont. We had a great talk about tooling, production work, and such like. No forging, but inspirational and fun nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Murray Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 (edited) On 12/8/2022 at 11:16 AM, Chad J. said: before the tank started to freeze up. I put my tank in a tub of tap water ,keeps it from freezing up. Edited December 10, 2022 by Mod30 Trim quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad J. Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 I'll have to get a tub big enough, normally I'd use my 100 lb tank but it was empty and a couple places here don't like filling it. The one place that will, no questions, has some funky hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 On 12/8/2022 at 9:46 PM, Shainarue said: That is gorgeous alexandr Thank you! Another final. It remains to take away and install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobtiel1 Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 Natkova, have a look at Krenkov style planes, they are not *that* difficult to make. Also have a look at Rex Krueger's channel for some stuff on how to make some wooden planes. ~Jobtiel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 2 minutes ago, Jobtiel1 said: Krenkov style planes That's "Krenov" -- James Krenov was a Russian-born woodworker, writer, and teacher who (among other things) made all of his own planes. Here's a video showing the basic process: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobtiel1 Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Yeah that's the one! I haven't used those styles yet but I like the traditional wooden planes a lot. Been looking into making some for myself too. ~Jobtiel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Bullet Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Finally finished my wife's 51st wedding anniversary gift. It was a little late, but she didn't mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 That's beautiful! I'll bet she didn't mind. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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