[TheForge] Sorry to break in with a blacksmithing question

[Chuck Robinson]

Or even quicker and easier,use a cold cut hardy.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David E. Smucker" <davesmucker at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Sorry to break in with a blacksmithing question


>I am sure that is right -- Peter's point was that students think "Machine" 
>when in fact they have any easy method right in front of them when they 
>already have the metal hot.  The cut I made yesterday in 1 1/2 material was 
>because it was hot, and I had the power hammer.  I could have let it cool 
>and cut it with the band saw or burned it with the cutting torch.  I tend 
>to be like Peter's students and because of my machinist background think 
>"band saw" -- because I like that nice clean cut.  Put if the end use 
>doesn't require it -- hot cutting it is fine.  ( or the cutting torch.)
>
> Dave
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> From: "Phil" <mobjak at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 7:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Sorry to break in with a blacksmithing question
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>> Dave:
>>
>> I when I worked with Peter in the late '70s and early
>> '80s at Colonial Williamsburg, it never seemed to
>> bother him to use the bandsaw.
>>
>> Phil
>>
>> --- "David E. Smucker" <davesmucker at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The ghost of Francis and Peter Ross would give us
>>> all hell for going to the
>>> chop saw (or band saw) rather than using the hardie
>>> for cutting stock up to
>>> at least an inch or so.  I used a hack yesterday to
>>> cut some 1 1/2 round on
>>> the power hammer.  (Hot of course.)  I have seen
>>> huge hacks mounted on the
>>> front of fork trucks used to cut heavy heavy stock
>>> under a 3000 ton press.
>>> (20 inch diameter.)  For lots applications there is
>>> no reason not to cut it
>>> at the anvil -- hot.  My reference to Peter Ross was
>>> his frustration when
>>> teaching at the John C. Campbell Folk School how
>>> often students would cool a
>>> piece and then go cut it on the chop saw rather that
>>> cut it at the anvil.
>>> Most of us have grown up in the machine age and
>>> think of a machine to cut
>>> with when in fact we can cut many things with a
>>> hardie or a hot cut.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: <Keporter at aol.com>
>>> To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 6:45 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Sorry to break in with a
>>> blacksmithing question
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > In a message dated 6/18/2005 3:36:22 P.M. Pacific
>>> Standard Time,
>>> > phlip at 99main.com writes:
>>> >
>>> > BTW, I  hate chopsaws, and have NEVER owned one.
>>> Too
>>> >> noisy and  dirty.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Saint Phlip:
>>> > Have you ever tried a dry cut saw, or a cold cut
>>> saw? Chop-saws are as
>>> > varied as any other tool. Even friction cut-off
>>> saws come in many
>>> > varieties. I
>>> > won't put up with large friction saws anymore,
>>> because they are noisy,
>>> > dirty,
>>> > and the 14" blades are inaccurate, but the small
>>> friction saws can be
>>> > very
>>> > handy. Horrible Fright even sells a 6" model from
>>> time to time.
>>> > Mike P.
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