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Blacksmithing News & Events
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July 17!!!! Blacksmith Swap Meet 2010...
A Northwest Tradition You Won't Want to Miss!
(It's Almost Here!)
Bring your dull knives with you this year, we have a knife sharpener coming to the Swap Meet.
A new library of online and down-loadable books
Mostly from Google Books, but we will try to find books of interest where ever they are on the internet. Depending on your internet connection, they can be a very long load time. So click on your choice and go get a cup of coffee!...
The Way We Were, Way Back When!
The First Hot Iron News!
...by Published on 05-30-2010 01:26 AM Number of Views: 215
3D Rose
Click here to view the rose in 3D: 3D ROSE You can rotate it with your mouse holding down the left ...by Published on 05-29-2010 08:57 PM Number of Views: 560
Adrian Legge and Henry Pomfret Herefordshire College of Technology Herefordshire England ...by Published on 05-19-2010 03:49 PM Number of Views: 222
An air cylinder is almost always a tie rod design. The tie rods hold end caps on each end of a tube that forms the cylinder walls for the piston. Each end cap has a port that carries air to the center of the cap. A hole in the cap then carries air from that port into the center of the chamber, aiming the air flow at the center of the piston. On the rod end the hole in the cap surrounds the rod on the inside. On the outside the bushing assembly and seals allow the rod to move through the cap.
...by Published on 05-16-2010 07:00 AM Number of Views: 205
May 12, 2008 a horrendous earthquake struck Sichuan Province in China. More than a hundred thousand people were killed and five million left homeless. A poet by the name of He Xiaozhu was in Chengdu, rocked by the quake. In the following days he penned this poem to commemorate the many thousands of children who died when their homes and their schools collapsed:
...Elegy
by He Xiaozhuby Published on 05-10-2010 03:47 PM Number of Views: 364
George Blackman commented on my first article that he'd had bad luck with a cylinder in a Kinyon design and asked if I'd recommend a good cylinder. I did a response, but George's question and my response were lost in the cosmic mud when Grant transferred us here from the initial trial site. This is as good an excuse as any to jot down a few thoughts about cylinders for utility hammers.
...Published on 05-10-2010 02:40 PM Number of Views: 470
-HAWK TOSSIN’-
...by Published on 05-01-2010 07:18 AM Number of Views: 338
Ten anvils stood in the old smith's shop of which my story's told
My eyes they saw nine post vice with their jaws ...Published on 04-27-2010 01:35 PM Number of Views: 349
Work in Progress
Artistic metal work for the house and garden
All will revealed soon!
In a few weeks all this will be transformed into gates and railings for a beach front property near Falmouth. The materials used will be a combination of textured graphite coloured steel, forged and polished stainless steel and blown glass. The design will be based on pennants flying in the wind and various other nautical themes.
Note the gates are only half finished; they will have a row of much larger glass "buds" running across the top. These will be about 250mm tall !
...by Published on 04-17-2010 09:59 AM Number of Views: 319
As some of you may know, quite a few NWBA members are also instructors at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, WA. "Pratt Fine Arts Center is an arts education and resource center dedicated to promoting creative development and artistic engagement to the local and global community." This is their mission statement, you can find out more about Pratt at www.pratt.org .
...by Published on 04-12-2010 04:33 PM Number of Views: 347
When Grant Sarver invited me to be a columnist I was flattered and said yes, but now that the time has come to say something I'm wondering if I can say anything useful. If this works out, great. If it doesn't, well, nothing ventured nothing gained.
My area of interest is power hammers and that is what I'll be talking about when I create columns. Many of you are owners of hammers, some of them made by you. I can probably help you increase the performance of shop-made hammers. So if you direct questions to me I'll try to answer them.
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