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Current hobby: Forging. (pic heavy)
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olydemon
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Location: Olympia, Warshington. Joined: Fri May 27, 2011 Posts: 12508
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Made a twisting wrench tonight from a $5 find at the local antique shop.....
Process shots for PMB......
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Rix86
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Plant hanger...... things First things I did.
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Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:32 am |
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PMB
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We should have a WaGuns power hammer build party.
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olydemon
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PMB wrote: :inlove:
We should have a WaGuns power hammer build party. We can build 2 at my place, you can trailer yours home....
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PMB
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olydemon wrote: PMB wrote: We should have a WaGuns power hammer build party. We can build 2 at my place, you can trailer yours home.... I have a couple of 500 pound balanced flywheels just waiting for me to get finished building the house, then it's happening. I vote for building here, then you trailer yours home.
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jukk0u
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Saw an article on some outdoor website showing a ball-peen hammer cum tomahawk that was pretty nifty.
You going to start a cottage industry, or is this strictly hobby time?
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Pablo
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I'm rivited.
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olydemon
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jukk0u wrote: Saw an article on some outdoor website showing a ball-peen hammer cum tomahawk that was pretty nifty.
You going to start a cottage industry, or is this strictly hobby time? Hobby, although the wife does 2 holiday craft shows for her art, I'm gonna test the waters for some of the bottle openers and trinkets.
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Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:58 am |
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olydemon
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Some Items I made last night. Really big image so I put spolier tag on it... - Spoiler: show
https://imgur.com/a/zVys3
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PMB
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Drop a quarter in the pic for size reference. I like the fine detail. The piece you were wearing at the A-Hole breakfast was very well done.
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Sun Nov 19, 2017 3:16 pm |
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olydemon
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PMB wrote: Drop a quarter in the pic for size reference. I like the fine detail. The piece you were wearing at the A-Hole breakfast was very well done. Thanks!
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olydemon
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Some more goodies from tonight.... Large image: - Spoiler: show
Gallery: https://imgur.com/a/DR47Q
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PMB
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I picture those as being stakes driven in a lawn holding some sort of light... Am I close?
Can you talk about how you choose which chunk of random steel for your projects? I have found that to be the biggest factor on whether a project works as intended. I tend to over-save spring steel, and use mild steel for too much, so some blades I've made are as sharp as a dull butter knife after 5 minutes of use. I've used a piece of axle rod and found it to be the toughest piece of metal I've ever hammered on. Mystery metal is used for 75% of my "fun projects".
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RENCORP
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Try old logging hand saw blades or old sawmill circular saw blades - hard stuff, but flexible too.
May be ideal knife material with edge tempering for hardness ?
Think Japanese sword making, where they clay tempered blades to harden the edge, but preserved flexibility in the rest of the blade for durability.
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olydemon
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PMB wrote: I picture those as being stakes driven in a lawn holding some sort of light... Am I close?
Can you talk about how you choose which chunk of random steel for your projects? I have found that to be the biggest factor on whether a project works as intended. I tend to over-save spring steel, and use mild steel for too much, so some blades I've made are as sharp as a dull butter knife after 5 minutes of use. I've used a piece of axle rod and found it to be the toughest piece of metal I've ever hammered on. Mystery metal is used for 75% of my "fun projects". For these it basically worked itself out. I heated the springs and pulled them out leaving one end still looped. It just looked like something I've seen used in gardens to hold plants up so I went with it. My bro in law was here for thanksgiving and said he bought almost the same thing for his garden last year. As far as my other projects, I don't really have any system. I'm still really light on scrap steel. Trying not to hit the big box improvement stores for anything overpriced....
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