[TheForge] jesse james/uri hofi ( was Re: Why an acetylene leak is not desirable)

[Paul Novorolsky]

Hey Jer,
Can you follow up with a note as to when this was on? I tried searching 
the national geographic channel to see if I can catch a replay and 
didn't find it. Nor did I find it on either the History channel or 
Discovery Channel.

While I'm no big fan of the boisterous JJ, I am curious about Hofi. I've 
heard a lot about him, along with a lot of criticism of his techniques. 
That link Phlip posted shows him as "the worlds greatest blacksmith" 
(perhaps he studied self marketing with Barnum and Bailey).

I did catch some of that motorcycle fab show last week. And the amount 
of blacksmithing Jesse James did was pretty slim. That show is so full 
of bad practices (like MIG welding without proper eye protection!) I 
will stop on it while channel surfing once in awhile. During one show, 
they had to stop and take one of the guys to the E.R because he was 
power brushing something and wire bounce off his face, rebounded off of 
the glasses and embedded itself in his eye. Next scene after his return 
to work showed him using a full face shield for wire brushing.

Anyway, I'd like to see what Hofi is teaching so I can make my own 
decisions about his techiniques. I'll surely learn _something_.

**paul

On 12/12/11 4:33 AM, Jerry Frost wrote:
> The commercials were enough I've never watched an episode, too much cooked
> drama, tantrums, etc. etc.
>
> On a similar note, this morning I caught something on NatGeo called. "Jesse
> James Blacksmith." The first hour or so was Jesse taking lessons from Uri
> Hofi at the kibutz. Makes me think I may have missed something interesting
> having missed every episode of West Coast Choppers.<sigh>
>
> Jer
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "CraigSchaefer"<calvinjean2 at comcast.net>
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA"<theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 9:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Why an acetylene leak is not desirable
>
>
>> The folks from Orange County Choppers. Relevant about 7 years ago. Now,
>> not so much.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jerry Frost"<akfrosty at mtaonline.net>
>> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA"<theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Friday, December 9, 2011 1:50:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Why an acetylene leak is not desirable
>>
>> Miss who?
>>
>> In my more adventurous youth a couple friends and I . . . Oh, that's right
>> I
>> don't talk about the oxy acet, the 10' weather ballon and the two 10'
>> methane ballon lift units nor how many blocks away wondows broke . . .
>> Nope,
>> I never mention such things, not me.
>>
>> Jer
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "CraigSchaefer"<calvinjean2 at comcast.net>
>> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA"<theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 4:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Why an acetylene leak is not desirable
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "TW, i just saw a commercial for for an upcoming Orange Count Choppers
>>> episode where they filled a 55 gallon garbage bag with oxygen and
>>> acetylene... if a static spark had set off that mix, the series would
>>> have ended right then and there..."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is this one of those 'tree falls in the woods' things? Would anybody miss
>>> them?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When a bunch of us were greater miscreants than we are now, we used to
>>> fill plastic milk jugs with oxy/acet and set them off with a rifle. They
>>> made a pretty good blast at that small size.
>
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