[TheForge] power hammer OT

Mon Jan 12 20:58:05 2004

        Steve, I'm in hopes of getting out to the northwest and the
conference out there could be just the excuse I need.  I'll definitely be in
Kentucky as I'm helping with set up this round.  We have a great crew
assembled and I'm looking forward to it already.  Come a day early if you
can to hang out with us.  The fellows from the midwest I'll be working with
always come with great pictures and stories.  :-)

        They say at the local saw mills that use the band saw blades in
their re-saw units that it is L6.  Is that what your using is those band saw
blades that are about 4" wide?
        I don't have a clue on forge welding those alloys........... never
tried.

Ralph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Howell Steve" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:24 AM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] power hammer OT


> 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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