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

Sat Nov 24 13:37:50 EST 2007

Bruce,

((fyi  your question below, to me,  never made it to my inbox???)

Since the plasticine seems to be oil based, the water does not seem to 
affect it.  I put the clay billets in the baggies so that drying off the 
clay is one less hassle to deal with.  Without the baggies, would have to 
have a supply of rags or papertowels.

Often when doing the clay demonstration we find that the groups of children 
arrive in spurts.  No kids for half an hour and then all of a sudden a whole 
den of cubscouts, all wanting to try forging at once.   So anything that 
streamlines the process helps.

Maybe it is my imagination, but it seems that children are much more 
impatient than they used to be.  I think at one times parents would correct 
the impatient tyke as part of the socializing process.  today, the parents 
are just as impatient as the child    8^(

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at yahoo.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Bored. Indoor clay-"forging" (was OT: Chain Saws)

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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