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Wanted to try this for a long time. The equipment has been sitting there. I was down doing some clean up today and fired up the forge and swung the hammer a little bit.
I don't think it looks too bad. The only guidance serves instruction i've ever had is watching a lot of forged in fire.
Oh yeah khara. I should have posted a pic. It was a spike like a railroad spike but much smaller. I threw a big railroad spike in the forge and heated it up but when I started beating on it I could tell it was going to take more time than I had to move it around. I'll post a pic of one. There's a pretty good pile of them. It might be for a smaller track like a mine car. I haven't tried to harden it. That might actually be a problem since I've already ground an edge on it. I think if I heat it enough for hardening the thin edge will probably burn.
All I can think of is that martial arts guy on the show, hacking at that dummy, then turning around, folding his hands, and saying "Your blade will kill"
Patty
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We'll have to wait for someone to insert the Doug Marcaida "It will keeel" meme. I don't know how to do it! Plus, it probably won't keel. It's not even a good letter opener as I ran out of time and quickly an poorly reshaped the tip that I burned while grinding.
Post by rockjunquie on Nov 19, 2022 20:17:37 GMT -5
Very cool! I find hammering to be very cathartic. Granted I never did anything like a forged knife, but I sure feel better after beating some metal. Take's your frustrations out. I used to do bodywork. The shop I worked at tried to keep R&R costs down for some of the older clients, so it was good old fashioned dent removal and hammering at metal. Loved it!
Yes rmf. There's an H in the back that you can't see. There's all kinds of good things in there. There's also a couple of old Fairbanks Morse engines and a couple of Model T's.
Fantastic first attempt as far as I'm concerned! It looks to me like you picked up some great ideas and techniques from Forged!
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Yes rmf . There's an H in the back that you can't see. There's all kinds of good things in there. There's also a couple of old Fairbanks Morse engines and a couple of Model T's.
We had a D when I was junior high and I use to cultivate corn with an H. Small world. What year is the D? Ours was 1934 and on rubber.
This is a 27 but should have a solid flywheel. Someone swapped out the crank years ago with a 23 so now it has the open flywheel and looks like an older and much more desirable "spoker".
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mohs: dam glad someone knows what their doing ...
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I used to do bodywork. The shop I worked at tried to keep R&R costs down for some of the older clients, so it was good old fashioned dent removal and hammering at metal. Loved it!
Mountain DEW, and Mountain Don't. (sorry-2)
glad someone knows what their doing ...
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