[TheForge] quiet test

Lon Humphrey ironcrossforge at roadrunner.com
Wed Jun 13 13:14:17 EDT 2007


im stll experiminting with the 52100 steel preaty cool stuff...
and this is the week that i have my daughter and shes too young to take in 
the shop
so not much is getting done here other than daddy stuff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ries" <ries at riesniemi.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] quiet test


>I have been forging, a bit, myself.
> I have been working on a series of big door pulls, just for the heck  of 
> it, to try out some of my really insanely complicated twists- I  have been 
> doing a lot of pieces lately that combine machining and  forging, where I 
> machine patterns in a piece of steel first, then hot  twist it, then forge 
> it into shapes.
> Too bad you cant post pictures here, right in the emails, like you  can on 
> some other email lists.
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> I am also making the worlds largest designer handbag, to go outside  of a 
> museum in Bellevue Wa, and that is mostly forged stainless, so I  have 
> been doing some production runs of 1/2" stainless round bar, a  few 
> hundred pieces of this, a few hundred pieces of that.
>
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> Ries Niemi
> Industrial Artist
> http://www.riesniemi.com/
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