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What's Paul up to?

PaulL said:
A bit more shop time. A chasing hammer for my sweetie, who wants to get into repousse work.
First a punch and a drift, out of some Atlantic 33 that arrived last week. To date I *really* like the "do nothing" tempering routine. Though the quench temperatures are *high*. I did the face with an oxy-propane torch to isolate the heat and just wailed on it until it upset to the right shape. Managed just about 1 1/4" out of the 3/4" base stock. And the hammer is out of the A-33 as well. We'll let you know how it holds up.
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And it's not done if it doesn't have a handle. This is some locally-harvested yew a neighbor had in his firewood pile (gasp!).
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It split beautifully, and the drawknife work was like putting on an old glove. It's been a long time, but still seems to work.
For next time, I'll probably move the eye 3/16ths towards the peen end - the balance isn't bad, but the visuals are a bit off.
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That is a nice looking piece of work
 
PaulL said:
A bit more shop time. A chasing hammer for my sweetie, who wants to get into repousse work.
First a punch and a drift, out of some Atlantic 33 that arrived last week. To date I *really* like the "do nothing" tempering routine. Though the quench temperatures are *high*. I did the face with an oxy-propane torch to isolate the heat and just wailed on it until it upset to the right shape. Managed just about 1 1/4" out of the 3/4" base stock. And the hammer is out of the A-33 as well. We'll let you know how it holds up.
View attachment 50895
And it's not done if it doesn't have a handle. This is some locally-harvested yew a neighbor had in his firewood pile (gasp!).
View attachment 50896
It split beautifully, and the drawknife work was like putting on an old glove. It's been a long time, but still seems to work.
For next time, I'll probably move the eye 3/16ths towards the peen end - the balance isn't bad, but the visuals are a bit off.
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Wow....... No more words, ran out..... Okay one more..... Beautiful!
 
No forge time this morning. First ever.
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Fire up the smokehouse and send it out here I’m sure we could organize an emergency members get together.
 
Tom O said:
Fire up the smokehouse and send it out here I’m sure we could organize an emergency members get together.
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For the next one. If there is one in time I'll bring some candy to the meetup in October.
 
Nothing too exciting today. A new anvil stump. By the time I got all the sapwood and termite goo out, it was *just* big enough.
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Other random tidbit. 275lbs anvil that I got at auction. In 1995 from the Surplus Equipment Recycling Facility (serf!) at UBC, for 1$/lb. The clerk tried to discourage me from bidding - I guess he wasn't allowed to compete with any *actual* bids for the equipment.
It's been on the oak stump I found then ever since. But that's now a pile of rot and this is a nice piece of fir.
 
A lot of time on the island the last few weeks with a bunch of house guests. Did a blacksmithing workshop with Sandra Dunn who we imported from Waterloo for the week. Made some chisels with forge welded sockets and forged on carbon steel edges, and my first forrays into working wrought island.
My buddy Mark came over early and helped me set up the shop for 5 people working in it once, and put together some video:
 
PaulL said:
A lot of time on the island the last few weeks with a bunch of house guests. Did a blacksmithing workshop with Sandra Dunn who we imported from Waterloo for the week. Made some chisels with forge welded sockets and forged on carbon steel edges, and my first forrays into working wrought island.
My buddy Mark came over early and helped me set up the shop for 5 people working in it once, and put together some video:
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And Part 2, in which the tooling gets used.
I didn't note that Part 1 includes a great shop tour.
 
I watched both videos, looks like a lot of experimenting and pretty steep learning curve but also looks like fun.

Not sure about the dress code though, sandals and shorts wouldn't be my choice for working around heavy hammers and red hot stuff.
 
YotaBota said:
I watched both videos, looks like a lot of experimenting and pretty steep learning curve but also looks like fun.
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Yeah, Mark is a very handy guy, and it was a steep curve for him. I had some similar burning problems, probably from running our fire too hot for the carbon steel a we were dealing with. Working with the forge out in su light made color judging very difficult. I did my socket in mild steel and welded on the cutting edge, so my problem was less catastrophic. I have a functional chisel to finish up when I next get over there.

YotaBota said:
Not sure about the dress code though, sandals and shorts wouldn't be my choice for working around heavy hammers and red hot stuff.
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I agree. That set of sartorial choices didn't thrill me either. That lady has a pile of trades experience and felt within her comfort zone, and I'm rarely one to be an enforcer. For what she was doing the risk of serious injury was low.
 
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