pnut Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 Will do and thanks for the hospitality. I love seeing actual shops as I've been working out of the back of my SUV for a couple years. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 A friend of mine, who gave me my hand crank Champion Lancaster blower from the family lumber yard (which had a blacksmith shop) founded in 1895 also raised Bison (buffalo). He gave a lifetime supply of all sorts of bones. He is a master bladesmith and retired. I haven't seen him in years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 There's a small herd of bison at Big Bone Lick state park about twenty minutes away from my house. I love buffalo horn handles. I had a little fixed blade with buffalo horn and antler handle scales when I was a little boy that my great uncle who I idolized gifted to me. I believe that's why I like the material so much. I haven't worked with it though. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 Most of the buffalo horn I have seen worked comes from Water Buffalo horns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 The gift card fuelled mini shopping spree is nearly over. It's tricky trying to put together orders that get close to the amount of money left on the cards. Anyway I got a 2lb Czech style hammer and a hot slit chisel. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustyanchor Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 pnut, I have one of the slitting chisels, I bought long ago, where did you get yours and how much, if I may ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 51 minutes ago, rustyanchor said: where did you get yours and how much, if I may ask. On line. It wasn't much I was trying to spend every penny on a gift card. I believe it was 12 or 15 dollars. It says Peddinghaus but it also says made in France so I'm a little confused. It seems okay though. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustyanchor Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 I think mine was made in France, it also has the orange handle. I haven't seen many for sale, but I may not be looking in the right places. Thank You for the reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chenier Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 I was distracted for a couple of days. An acquaintance moved into assisted living and his family is cleaning out the house. A bit sad. He told me to look in the basement and take anything I wanted. The electronics and carpentry buffs had already been there by the time I arrived. But a few things followed me home. A 9-inch lathe ... An arbor press ... And an old 12" Craftsman bandsaw. The latter needs some work, but I don't have a bandsaw and the price was right. It came with a set of reduction gears so it can be rigged for metal cutting. These aren't exactly blacksmithing items but IFI does have a "show your lathe" section. So there you go. It did not escape my attention (how could it?) that both the arbor press and the lathe have a lot more mass than my new anvil. What am I thinking? SWMBO and I have learned a bit about moving heavy objects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 9 hours ago, rustyanchor said: think mine was made in France It says mob Peddinghaus on the sticker. I just looked it up. It's a subsidiary of Peddinghaus Handzwerkeuge sp? Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 Nice lathe and press, Chenier. Certainly can’t beat the price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 Finally arrived. So of course i had to try it out. That is a slice off of a piece of railroad track with it. Now to find things to cut. There is a piece of metal welded to the other side of the slice of track if it looks weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 One of my best uses of the Porta-Band was when I realized that my anvil stand was out of level and a bit high: I leveled it out with shims, scribed a line 1/2" above the floor around all three feet, and cut to the line. I don't even want to think about what that job would have looked like without that saw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimaera Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Got half a dozen mower blades. Not the best, but good enough for me. I won’t feel bad for ruining quality steel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 What do you want to make from them? Any of them the lower carbon boron ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Shed Forge Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Really diggin' the porta-bandsaw action on here today. I got a Bauer from HF on Christmas and have enjoyed it very much since. I go through blades pretty quickly on it, though. Maybe it's the medium-to-high carbon I have mostly been cutting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Chimaera, many mower blades are a special boron alloy that takes a very specialized heat treatment to harden. Experiment first before investing a lot of time. Well I just bought a Scotchman 6509 ironworker at an auction. Paid more than originally set out to, but still did pretty good. Watching videos of them the ram goes up and down pretty fast, and at 65 ton capacity it could possibly be used for smithing. Good thing I also won two box trucks, as I can use one to bring it home I'll post pictures once I get it home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 BGD, some of my tool holders are pieces of C channel that were used to set up an ironworker to do accurately spaced sq hole punching for pickets; the spaced sq holes fit a lot of my hardy tools and also some of my armouring stakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 BGD, don't know what you paid but new they run right at 20k. good find no doubt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 I got three valves, valve guides and a push rod out of a alco locomotive engine, from a retired heavy machinery mechanic who was cleaning out the shop and moving away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 I've been experimenting with using valves for face carving/punching tools; but NOT THAT LARGE OF ONES! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Lol I have no clue what I’m gonna do with these yet but they are definitely interesting conversation pieces in the meantime. The old guy I got them from said he used to clean them up and weld the guides to the valves and then Crome them and sell them as heavy duty candle sticks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 I don't know about the Alco diesel engines but a lot of the valves have gas filled stems and I would be leery about welding or forging them without checking that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Thanks for the heads up irondragon, I’ve never heard that I’ll definitely have to read up on that. any valves I’ve ever pulled In my small engine shop I’ve just thrown in scrap and never thought about them or reused them for anything. I probably won’t be doing any welding on these big valves myself I just wanted to share the backstory of the previous owner and what he used to do with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swedefiddle Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 Good Morning, Some valves are 'Sodium filled', this helps dissipate heat from the exhaust valve head. Generally there is a tiny indent like a 1/16" deep hole exactly in the center of the valve head, if they are Sodium. Only exhaust valves have Sodium!! Exhaust valve heads are always non magnetic, stainless. This stops the lines of molecules from lining up and becoming magnetic from all the hammering closed, at heat. Quite often the valve stem can attract a magnet, but never the head. Intake valves are never stainless, they always get a drink of cold air so they don't get as hot. You can always tell the difference with a small magnet. Exhaust valves always have more material in the base of the tulip of the valve head. Too much information, SORRY!! I make repousse' tools from old valves. I Don't heat them, grind them cold after turning to size in the lathe. One mans junk is .................gold!! Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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