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2:24 am
March 18, 2010
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We'll let john come along and explain this one:
“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 ~
6:00 am
March 22, 2010
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Its about the third time I've watched this... And it gets neater ever single time.... Man that is a cool hammer..
Whatever you are, be a good one.
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4:12 pm
June 20, 2010
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Ya that is an awesome video the tooling is very effective, after watching that I don't know if I want to post the video of my hammer, seems like a childs toy in comparison
6:13 pm
May 13, 2010
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Just came into work this afternoon after moving yesterday, no internet at home till tomorrow afternoon. I have made about 70 of these so far, the first few took quite a bit longer. The one thing that is a little hard on these is the fact that there is no secondary bevel on the tip so they have to be forged to a point. The one thing that may not be obvious in the video is the cutoff tool for the chisel end is not a normal one. It has a 45 on the back side but the front side is just a little steeper than the chisel taper so that after I cut it off, I just need to hit a few blows to blend it in.
7:43 pm
May 13, 2010
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I made another video the other day of the steps in making some small hooks made of 3/4" round, that get welded on the end of a piece of 3/4" pipe for lifting steel covers. I have to talk my daughter into editing the video or find the time to do it myself so I can post it.
12:38 am
June 16, 2010
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That's pretty impressive tooling Mr. Newman.
I notice that you had to cut off some of the shank and some of the drawn out point of the chisel. Is there a reason why you don't start with a smaller piece of stock so you don't have to cut off the extra material? Just a rookie asking what is probably obvious.
9:35 pm
May 13, 2010
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I am surprised no one asked this question when I originally posted this video over on Iforgeiron. Because I am forging a 1" shank out of 2 3/4" round I only need 3/8" of the parent stock to get the 3" long shank. If I were to try and forge the bar down that far that close to the end it will just roll the corners over forming a "birds mouth" as it rolled it would also squirt the bar out from between the dies as well. The birds mouth would make the shank hollow and split. Even with the amount I forge down I occasionally end up with a folded end in the piece I cut off. I do end up with a bunch of 3" long pieces of 1" square 4340 that I can use for hand tools and I also throw them into Iron in the hat at OABA meetings.
11:04 pm
June 16, 2010
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Ah, that makes sense. Thank-you for the explanation.
2:47 am
May 13, 2010
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I am not close enough to the Pacific North West to hang with the cool Blacksmiths Either.
5:34 am
March 18, 2010
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And yet.........here we are, all together and havin fun! Ain't the internet great?
“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 ~
1:35 pm
June 16, 2010
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Yep, this interweb thingy is cool. Unfortunately we have to rely on posted videos and pictures to hang out and virtually play with the cool blacksmiths and their cool tools. Does that make me virtually cool?
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