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10:40 pm
March 22, 2010
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When I was making my fortune making damascus steel I made a bottom die, thimble shaped. Mashed a chunk of damascus in it with a 50# Little Giant. The slug was trimmed in a 2X72 belt grinder, silver soldered to roundstock, drilled and machined, sanded in a bench lathe, then cut from the bar, trimmed and shallow dimples drilled in the end. Etched in diluted ferric chloride.
Too bad I never kept one for my basement collection. I do have a sample of how a thimble was made, see the image.
3:05 am
March 22, 2010
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Well when I saw thimble I first past over this thread.... Not much interest in sewing even with a cool thimble... But that is pretty cool I must say... Now why have you not built a set of damascus scissors to go with?
Whatever you are, be a good one.
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3:52 am
April 21, 2010
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Speaking of Scissors get a load of this.....
4:59 am
March 18, 2010
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Very cool! Guess over there people are more willing to pay for hand made items.
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
6:27 am
March 22, 2010
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Wow, I have a greater appreciation for handmade japanese scissors, a real thrill to see someone who knows what their doing. Now I am going to google Japanese handmade scissors and see what shows up.
6:38 am
March 22, 2010
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Only sold a few, gave some to relatives, more of a see if I could make them deal, I get bored real quick with machine work unless it's making a tool for myself or a have to repair.
I don't have a picture but a welder friend got interesting in casting brass. He packed some steel tubing with BB's, fluxed and poured molten brass in it. I turned several thimbles from the brass and BB mix, real neat, brass with these ballon shapes of various sizes. Did a temper heat to turn the steel BB's blue, I made one for the welder and one for a relative that was a thimble maker, lost wax and fabbed up bronze.
Rule #1, when making something, make one for your basment collection.
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