[TheForge] power hammer OT

Mon Jan 12 11:25:01 2004

Ralph- I am hoping to make Ky. in July.
I'm glad to hear that the '06 conference is in Seattle. You'll have a place
to stay if you make it out. I'm not sure if it will be on the U of
Washington campus or not but that will be a great location if so.

Damascus:

I'm just really getting into the pattern welding thing and I'm torn with the
'paralysis of possibilities' as I call it. So far the majority of stuff I've
been trying is 1095 and L6 or some other unkown nickle stuff (saw blade) and
the results have been going well. I'm getting up the nerve to try some
different steels. I have buckets of 4300 and 5100 series steels as well as
some air hardening D2 and A2. Who has experience with welding air hardening
steel? I'd like to try these for some billets but all that carbon makes me a
little nervous. One way to find out, I guess.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Sproul [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 7:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TheForge] power hammer

Steve, Hope your taking some pictures of your projects in Damascus, would
love to see them as I have a knife maker friend that likes to experiment.

Think you might be coming to the ABANA conference?  I'll be there - hope to
get to meet you.

Ralph
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howell Steve" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 9:48 AM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] power hammer

> I figured I was married to the craft the day I brought a platen table
home.
> Once you have to get a forklift to move your shop what's an extra 10,000
> lbs?! The flood gates are open!
> If anything in this life has taught me a thing about patience and
> perseverance, it is blacksmithing. Once you realize that you're in it for
> the long haul and it goes beyond the hobbiest level why not take something
> on like a hammer? You NEED a challenge in your life!
> Agreed- finding work to feed one is a valid question but the fact that it
is
> there, and paid for, is plus cash flow from here on out.
> Ries- I don't know if you ran into Dave Tuthill at the Bothell gallery
> friday but you may have heard we're going hog-wild on the damascus lately.
> The 3B is taking that to a whole 'nother level.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ries Niemi [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 12:30 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] power hammer
>
>
>
> I didnt even notice the nazel was a closed die machine. But I wasnt
> actually seriously looking at it to buy, and the pictures werent the
> greatest. $8500 is way steep in that case.
> But my basic point, that there are actually plenty of the really big
> hammers available if anyone really wants one, is still true.
> There are more big hammers out there than there are people with the
> time, money, need, and just plain hammer lust necessary to actually get
> one running.
>
> There are a few blacksmiths who actually can use one of them to its
> potential, but they are rare.
>
> ries
>
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