[TheForge] Hammer's Blow

Fri Apr 2 18:03:00 2004

Yes I did tape James at the ABANA conference for the Upper MidWest
Blacksmiths, UMBA
I have watched him also at Bemidji, MN but there is not tape of that demo
available.  About the only difference was at Bemidji he also welded steel
nuts and nuts with balls.
A copy of the ABANA demo can be ordered for $7 postage paid in VHS or DVD-R.
Any other items in the same order are $5 each and of course you keep them
not rent them for this money.  A full listing of events are at
www.umbaonline.org then go to the library link.  The DVD-R are ready for
immediate shipment as are most of the VHS tapes.  James is included on  RD82
along with a wooden wagon wheel demo.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ries Niemi" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Hammer's Blow


>
> I am too lazy to go in the house and check, but I am assuming you are
> talking about the piece by James Viste.
> He demoed at LaCrosse, and he has a real nifty technique for forge
> welding those little squares on.
> He gets lots of punch leftovers- I think those came from an ironworker
> with a square punch, but he also uses ball bearings, round punchouts,
> and all kinds of scrap the same way.
> he has a clamshell gas forge he built, and he uses it to forge weld-
> He heats up the base metal- I would guess the one on the cover is
> probably a piece of 1/4" plate about 5" square. Once it is hot, he
> fluxes it, reheats, and places his little squares on it. Then he takes
> it to the power hammer, and uses that to forge weld the pieces on.
> If he doesnt want to squash the little parts, like if he is using ball
> bearings, he makes giant spatula looking things out of old oak pallets-
> 2 feet long by 4" wide by 1" thick or so. He puts the hot iron on the
> bottom die of the power hammer, then puts his oak spatula on, then
> whacks it. the oak spatulas burn up every 10 or 20 uses, but he just
> bandsaws out a big stack before hand, and after they get crispy they
> become firewood.
> I am pretty sure Roger Degner of UMbBA has a dvd or video of James
> demonstrating.
> He has invented quite a few clever techniques, and his demo is well
> worth watching.
>
> ries
>
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