[TheForge] So, what are you working on? (was: anybody there?)

[Andrew Vida]

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> Deep-cupped ladles are a challenge.  A two-piece, bowl and handle,
> riveted, is appropriate.  It's making the deep bowl, especially from
> steel, that's the challenge.

Depends on how you want to make them.  If it were a common trade item, I 
would hollow out a piece of oak and make an iron dapping punch.  Raise 
the form to rough dimension and then finish with a sinking operation 
using the dap.  This way you can readily fashion single-piece ladles, 
eliminating extra handle attachment operations, whether they be riveting 
or welding, etc.  If your dap is good tool steel, there is no reason you 
could not use it as a raising stake as well.  Dapping would save the 
commercial smith a whole lot of manufacturing time.  I'd bet on the 
order of 50%, give or take.
> 
> I don't know how far you stretch the term "kitchen utensil".
> 
> If  you're into scissors-making, a scissors is neat for use on chicken
> joints, etc., would be unusual.
> 
> For that matter, a small bone saw, using a 10-per-inch hacksaw blade
> and having a very deep throat wild be a welcome addition to most
> kitchens.  I have a full-size bone saw, 24" blade, and it's too long
> and not deep enough.  (Clean the paint and oil off the blade.)

	Well, if we tested that on your skull I assure everyone the teeth would 
all break no later than the second stroke.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Albin Drzewianowski <dski1045 at qis.net> wrote:
>> First order of business will be to make a kitchen utensil for this month's "trade-item" at the Feb Guild meeting.  Sitting here, trying to think of just what I could make.  I figure there will be lots of  forks and ladles.  I'd like to do something different
>>
>> 2nd on the list is to make some tools to go in the "farrier style toolbox" that the Guild will be raffling off at our Blacksmith Days in May.  We did this about 3 years ago and it was one of our most successful raffle items.
>>
>> Finally, I am still working on tooling for my fly press, primarily various kinds of decorative stamps/punches.
>>
>> D-ski
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