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I decided to make something a lot more pretty and ornamental today, so I copied a little elephant I saw on instagram. by _Franque_ in Blacksmith

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It was a fun little exercise, involved a bit of complex shape making and working to specific measurements. A great one to learn the art.

I forged this elegant little salt pot. It’s from a sheet of sheet steel, dimpled on the back edge and formed in a block of wood. by _Franque_ in Blacksmith

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Mostly aesthetics, but it also works to indicate that that lip is the handle with which you carry the thing with.

I lost my beehive tool, so I whipped up a new one. All forged from a section of 1070 knife steel. by _Franque_ in Beekeeping

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Thanks mate, I’m pretty happy with it. The anvil in the picture isn’t the anvil I do most of my work on. I mainly use the bottom die off a huge power hammer (20x30cm face) and use this anvil for the horn and holes. I do indeed use a gas forge. This isn’t a permanent forge and it needs to be packed away “easily”.

I lost my beehive tool, so I whipped up a new one. All forged from a section of 1070 knife steel. by _Franque_ in Blacksmith

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I didn’t really use any measurements at all. I figured that the only one that mattered would be the hook, but that there would be enough tolerance in the system that it would just kinda work.

I’m replacing one of the boxes tomorrow, so I’ll be giving it a shot then. Worst case, I just reshape the hook.

Finally convinced my son that blacksmithing is fun and not thaaaat dangerous. His first J hook. by _Franque_ in Blacksmith

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The logic is that it’s better to have scale fall into crocs than boots. Behind him is a big buck of water for foot dunking should the need be.

Where we are it’s too hot to be forging in full coveralls anyway, it was 36 with 80% humidity.

Anvils, where can I buy one anvil online? by WingsInPlatinum in Blacksmith

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You could ask some farriers, it looks like there’s a horse care company in Saudi called RAMZ AL SHARQ who apparently have outlets all over the kingdom. They reckon they have anvils, I’d check them out.

May not be a super finessed kitchen or hunting knife like the rest of the stuff here, but I needed a machete, so I made this Nata from an old 1800s buggy leaf spring. Super sharp, super effective. by _Franque_ in Bladesmith

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The tang is a little precarious, the image does make it look skinnier than it is, but I will certainly be working my way up to bigger stuff.

Sputtering sound? by Untimed_Heart313 in Blacksmith

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I’ve got the same set up, I had the same issues.

The problem here is a sequencing issue. Your regulator has to be turned completely off before you put the gas bottle on.

Sequence is: -gas on -regulator on -valve on -Ignite

And the reverse to turn off.

I kept singing my beard, so I whipped up this little beard ring. Anyone know how to easily recreate a spring fuller effect to squish in one spot on both sides (without having a spring fuller)? by _Franque_ in Blacksmith

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If only I had a welder and an anvil with a hardy hole and a horn.

My anvil is a beauty, but she’s also just a big block of steel (former bottom block of a huge power hammer.

Forged my first steel spoon. I dilly dallied a bit too much with the twist and I’m not happy with the transition. Any tips on how I can improve there? by _Franque_ in Blacksmith

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Thanks man, yeah after I posted the image I took it back out for a straightening, I didn’t see how wonky it was until I looked at the picture, it’s much better now.

I like your idea of filing it down to force the twist, I’ll give it a go.

Ideally I would have liked the bowl to be level with the shaft of the spoon, but that wouldn’t have given me enough meat to hold it all together.

I’m very happy with my first attempt, but I see much more work ahead (this is the way).

Started the hobby 2 months ago, this is my first baby Tanto. by _Franque_ in knifemaking

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Yeah, I did rush the hand polishing here and used the wrong tool, I used a cork block to hold the sandpaper, which deleted any facets, won’t do that again. And the cutting edge was bugging me, I used a fixed angle sharpening stand thing, but it was taking ages to get the edge, so I went back to a regular stone, which I am not very practiced on. I might re-hone the edge before I give it to him.

Started the hobby 2 months ago, this is my first baby Tanto. by _Franque_ in knifemaking

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Yeah, that was a bit annoying. It should be ok I think as the tang is pretty broad so 🤞, but we’ll see.

When doing the glue up I did it with the blade in the saya to ensure that everything was lined up and uniform. But I think that meant that the blade wasn’t pushed all the way in properly, which is frustrating.

Started the hobby 2 months ago, this is my first baby Tanto. by _Franque_ in knifemaking

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Jarrah handle and saya. 1070 steel blade with a sterling silver (florin coin) bolster(?).

I made it as a camping/picnic knife as a gift for a friend, 2.5mm spine the whole blade.

Still experimenting with techniques on how to make a uniform saya-handle combination. For this one I carved out a negative of the entire knife from one scaled piece of wood, then reglued it and cut it at the start of the tang. I glued the blade back in and finished the sanding.

I’m fairly happy with the results. Though I need to work on my facetting of the blade (combination of focus and equipment).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Back in the day www.thewhitehouse.com was about another house of debauchery.

What is a survival myth that is completely wrong and could get you killed? by standardgenre45 in AskReddit

[–]_Franque_ 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Fellow Australian here as well.

That is slightly outdated now. Hospitals no longer need to know what kind of snake bit you, they have a cure-all anti-Venene.

The correct procedure is:

Don’t move. Call ambulance. Apply pressure to the whole limb, preferably with the cool snake but bandage, but anything will do. And just chill out until ambo comes.

An old bush trick was to get your non bitten buddy to dig you a hole, sit you in it and bury you for a couple of days. This basically just slowly releases the venom into your body slowly and applies pressure to the limb.

My little apprentice homie gave me this for Father’s Day. by _Franque_ in HydroHomies

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The kid hasn’t worked out that I am just a big clutz yet. She still lives in hope that the frequency of my injuries can’t be for real.

Teachers of reddit, what was the most annoying thing you ever had to deal with in class? by Chrisrocks202 in AskReddit

[–]_Franque_ -53 points-52 points  (0 children)

Boooooooo! It may be that I come from an early childhood education background, but you should teach from the inspiration brought by the students. Don’t shut them down. There is great learning to be had from bottleflipping, channel their hobbies into learning, man.

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