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  1. Chris Cramer

    New to the group from Ont.!

    Welcome from Calgary Alberta. I was fascinated by the precise machining you did for the turbillon, I also enjoy carrying out precise work with my hands. Along with my creativity that is what got me into making silver jewelry as a hobby. But my primary skills are in welding and blade smithing.
  2. Chris Cramer

    Large scale Tourbillon

    I've never thought about machining bezel settings for gemstones. All my silversmithing is soldered, other than flush set stones that sit in a hole grinded with a dimond burr. I have a lot of patience to complete long projects like this, but the complexity of this project would take me hours to...
  3. Chris Cramer

    Surface Grinder $500.00

    Thanks for sharing that, but that's a bulky machine that could not fit in the remaining space in my shop. Maybe I could design something that can fit under the belt grinder I built that can be raised and lowered so the area of the belt running back to the drive wheel so the belt just skims the...
  4. Chris Cramer

    Blade smithing

    So far I think I've done pretty good designing and cutting these more heavy duty shears. The link works well, and I can feel that the inner edges come in contact with each other when I close them. However there hasn't been any heat treatment and the straightening was done by bending and with a...
  5. Chris Cramer

    Surfacing

    For the pair of shears I'm working on, I'm trying to find the best technique to level both blades flush with each other for them to cut properly. I tried using my forge and my 20 ton hydraulic press but the surface is not left flat. I do have a backing plate attached to my belt grinder but that...
  6. Chris Cramer

    New member - Ottawa area metal caster

    Welcome aboard from Calgary Alberta. I did a lot of research on metal casting before I began welding blade smithing and a bit of machining. Casting seemed to give you the most freedom in terms of Creativity, giving you the ability to turn whatever you could carve into metal. I've done a bit of...
  7. Chris Cramer

    Blade smithing

    This bur happens to have teeth on the end of the cylinder as well as the face around it. They did a much better job of grinding the hole around the link of the new bade I just cut.
  8. Chris Cramer

    Blade smithing

    Yeah that started to work a bit after I sharpened the edges of the first bit. Instead of creating too much heat by applying high pressure at high speed I ran it as slow as possible which is 500rpm. The problem then was the fact that they are brittle. The blade shattered when I applied more...
  9. Chris Cramer

    Milling machine: Albrecht chucks, Silver and Deming etc.

    Most of what I want to do is use an end mill to clean/ square the edges of some holes and slots instead of using a tungsten bur with a die grinder. If the machine doesn't need too much rigidity to skim the inner edges and corners of ferrous metal and maybe also to cut a clean hole with larger...
  10. Chris Cramer

    Milling machine: Albrecht chucks, Silver and Deming etc.

    Would it be possible to use end mills in a drill press if I add a manual gantry to the drill table?
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