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

[Bruce Freeman]

Jeff:

Yes, I meant plasticine clay.

Albin:

The plasticine clay I use is unaffected by water.  Do
you find otherwise, or do you have another reason for
keeping it dry?

Bruce
NJ


--- Albin Drzewianowski <dski1045 at qis.net> wrote:

> 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-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [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
> > >
> >
> > -- 
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