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Real Blacksmiths use Joysticks
May 23, 2012
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When they tell you blacksmithing is a "lost art" just show em this video.
These guys dont necessarily get their hands dirty, but they are incredible blacksmiths, and working on projects where a mistake can cost a hundred grand.

May 23, 2012
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Its all just basic blacksmithing...

May 23, 2012
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thats kinda my point.

I often meet luddites who think if machines of any kind are involved, it aint blacksmithing.
I like machines.
Especially big ones.

I like the way these machines do effortless squashes on 4' diameter pieces- my elbow aint what it used to be.

May 24, 2012
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Nice video, thank you for posting, Other good ones link of that one:D

May 24, 2012
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Thanks Ries! Seeing that guy with the joy stick doing what we do on small stock was amazing!! What an eye!

May 24, 2012
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I like those locomotive box jaw tongs, my little OCP bx jaws are my go to tongs most of the time and that configuration seems like the industrial go to as well...I wonder if they can put different jaws on that rig?

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
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May 24, 2012
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Great video, I wonder does anyone there say "I wonder what we could do with the scale?:D

May 24, 2012
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Oh, they sell the scale.
Patrick Nowak, who is a blacksmith and an engineer, has worked for various big steel mills in the Northeast, and he has stories about selling train cars full of scale every month- there are a bunch of industrial processes and processes that use the scale.

I dont know if there are pictures online- I havent been able to find em- but at least two different artists have worked with machinery this big to make sculptures-

Tom Joyce was artist in residence at Scot Forge a few years ago, and they gave him the run of the place, letting him make sculptures from 3' solid cubes of steel, using 40,000lb presses. He showed pictures of working there at his slide show at the Seattle Abana conference.

And way back in the early 70's, Richard Serra did a series of forged sculptures, at a big industrial forge in the Ruhr in Germany- I saw a documentary film about it years ago- he was making pieces from 6' cubes of solid steel, forged in a shop much like the one in this video. Of course, he didnt do it himself- the regular forge crew ran all the machines, he just told them what he wanted.

May 24, 2012
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Freidrich Christoff did a similar project using a big industrial forge shop to make some big sculptural pieces out of 6" thick slabs. He showed slides and his maquettes at Caniron V in Nova Scotia.

May 25, 2012
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Ries;15503 wrote: When they tell you blacksmithing is a "lost art" just show em this video.
These guys dont necessarily get their hands dirty, but they are incredible blacksmiths, and working on projects where a mistake can cost a hundred grand.

This is a similar looking part that cost way more than 100k to fix, OOOOPPS:mad:

May 30, 2012
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Here's a link to one of the Joyce sculptures.

http://artfeast.com/2007/09/to.....tist-2007/

Last time I was through Sante Fe there was one outside The "SITE" Gallery in the Railway district. Pretty cool, the old score with a hacksaw and twist routine.

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