[TheForge] Bored. Indoor clay-"forging" (was OT: Chain Saws)

[Albin Drzewianowski]

BGCM has  wooden anvils, hammers, and punches/chisels along with a supply of 
plasticine clay that we use at public demonstrations.  It lets the kids 
duplicate what the "big boys" are doing with fire and steel.

This year I learned that we need to keep an icechest with some ice handy. On 
a hot/warm day, the plasticine clay gets to warm and squishy.  We would put 
the warm clay in a zip loc bag and lay it on top of the ice.  this way the 
clay did not get wet, but it cooled down to a better consistency.   We had 
6-8 "billets" that we would cycle through the ice chest.

D-ski
Westminster, MD
"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne"



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffrey Polaski" <jeff.polaski at rgs.uci.edu>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:50 PM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Bored. Indoor clay-"forging" (was OT: Chain Saws)


You mean plasticine clay, right?  I'd think that using lots of water on
regular ceramic clay would get messy, especially as you hammered it.
And, as the water absorbed into the clay, it would change the hardness.



Jeff Polaski


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Freeman
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:37 AM
To: terry l. ridder; Sponsored by ABANA
Subject: [TheForge] Bored. Indoor clay-"forging" (was OT: Chain Saws)

Terry,

I'm in the reverse situation of yours - much too much
to do!

One thing I've had on the back of my mind for a while
now is to make a wooden "anvil", varnished up,
suitable for use in the house.  Hammer clay on this to
practice forging.

I am starting to think that you need to warm the clay
first to soften it a bit, then cool it periodically to
harden it.  So have a "forge" of warm water, and a
"quench bucket" of ice water.

Like I say, I haven't tried it yet.

Bruce
NJ
--- "terry l. ridder" <terrylr at blauedonau.com> wrote:

> hello bob;
>
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
>
> >
> > Terry,
> >
> > Well, at least you are doing well enough to want
> to be back at it.
> >
>
> i am just so bored. when i was released from the
> hospital
> my daughters had dish network installed at the
> house. i
> watch food network, mythbusters, and 'how it is
> made.'.
> there are good and bad days. however, even on good
> days
> i am taking morphine.
>
> >
> > How did it turn out having the line crews dump all
> > their tree trunks in your front yard?
> >
>
> the logs just laid there until 10 nov 2007. my wife,
> had arranged with a local church for the men's group
> to come over in that saturday with their chain saws
> and log splitters and cut the logs up for firewood.
>
> neither my lawyer nor i particularly liked that
> idea.
> my lawyer, is busy enough now with the
> head-on-collision
> accident turning into yet another legal nightmare
> and
> the 11yr old illinois workman's compensation legal
> nightmare. anyway, my lawyer and i were voted down
> by
> the wife.
>
> the church group spent about 5 hours here on 10 nov
> 2007.
> there are roughly 8 cords of firewood stacked and
> roughly
> another 10 cords that need splitting.
>
> thankfully, no one was injured. not one of those who
> came
> had any safety equipment. no ear plugs, no safety
> glasses,
> no safety chaps, no steel toed boots.
>
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > Robert Ehrenberger
> > Shelbyville, Mo.
> > eforge at centurytel.net
> >
>
> -- 
> terry l. ridder ><>
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