[TheForge] Sorry to break in with a blacksmithing question

[Justin Fellenz]

You know, I bought a horrible freight (good name) hand-held bandsaw and
I really like it. I know it will die soon (ironically, my cheapie HF
grinder breathed its last during this thread, after only a few hours'
use) but it was a test (and the grinder was a third, just so I didnt
have to keep changing blades). All that said, I find it very
handy--nice clean cuts, no big floor mounted machine (portable is
nice), and you can get into small places with it--I just used it to cut
a hydraulic fitting off a ram that needed to be repositioned after a
mistaken weld--no clean up and no dust in the air. And it was cheap,
like 60 bucks. Get what you pay for but I've used it a few times and so
far so good. Maybe an idea for you, Phlip?

Justin
--- Chuck Robinson <robi5515 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> 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
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > 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
> >
> >
> >> 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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