[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 106, Issue 24

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

OK...point made ( again).
Metal content.

There seems to be more than 1 kind of silicon bronze.
Anyone want to offer a brief run down on the forging characteristics of each<
and recommended sources for modest quantities?
And.
I'm a terrible hand at my old lathe..pig-ignorant. I was ineptly cutting a tapered hole in the length of a chunk of what i presume to be naval bronze shafting i'd drilled out, with an improvised boring bar... (it's about done now) , but it was slow and  there were horrible squealing and crunching-gravel like sounds . The shavings were masses of tiny sharp pins..ugly! I tried changing all the parameters i thought might help ( bit level, cutting face angle, feed rate), to little avail. Perhaps the cutting bit had too wide a face? The boring bar wasn't as rigid as i would have liked.
Any pointers would be appreciated.

On Nov 14, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Mike Spencer wrote:


Dave Mudge wrote:

> Is this conversation getting a little too heavy for this forum?
> Let's stick to metal and art and such and take politics somewhere
> else, ok?

Yessir, Dave, Sir. Anybody who doubts the wisdom of Dave's advice
should have a quick look at the Usenet newsgroup
rec.crafts.metalworking. [1] We don't want to go that way here, I'm
pretty sure.

Andy wrote:

> But.. but... global warming...
> 
> corporations...

I can tell you what I think about corporate oligarchy in private
email, Andy, or I can even point you to a lightly trafficed mailing
list where an exchange of comment and opinion that is *very* much more
level-headed and civil that rec.crafts.metalworking.

Just to bridge us back onto topic: There is an Iranian [2] blacksmith
here in Nova Scotia.  Very deft at the anvil and a charming guy as
well.  He recently acquired Canadian citizenship, has been driving a
cab for the last few years to get a stake. AFAICT, he's spent all his
money on smithing gear and a site for his shop which should be under
construction next spring.

ObSmithing: 

Despite doing furious geometry gymnastics in my head, I welded my
cellar door latch handle on wrong way to. Hadda slice the weld off
with a zizz wheel and redo.  Works just lovely now, looks better than it
has in 100 years if you overlook the fact that, due to movement of the
drystone foundation (now arrested) nothing is square, plumb or
level. :-)  I'm always entertained when I find myself patching up a
pine or hemlock board that was a sapling when George III was still in
short pants.


- Mike

[1] rec.crafts.metalworking should be available on Google Groups if
   you don't have proper news reader software, are disinclined to get
   such software or don't have access to a news server.

[2] Iranian: He refers to himself as "Persian".  I infer, without his
   having said so explicitly, that this is to associate himself with
   the long history of Persian culture while distancing himself from
   the politics and government of the contemporary sovereign nation.

-- 
Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
                                                          /V\ 
mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^
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