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

Sat Nov 24 13:44:58 EST 2007

Bruce,

Please ignore my parenthesized comment below,  just figured out that you 
responded to both and Jeff in the same email.   I thought I had missed one.

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albin Drzewianowski" <dski1045 at qis.net>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Bored. Indoor clay-"forging" (was OT: Chain Saws)

> 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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