Blacksmithing

[h-dom]

A half pallet refers to the height and weight. A 120x100 pallet is still a half if under 1m high and under 500kg. A common mistake which often sees people attacking a good pallet with a chainsaw
It is only on international freight that you can save money with a smaller pallet!
Laid down is fine as long as nothing sticks through the pallet.

Yeah, under 1m high and definitely under 500kg! Normal size pallet.

 

[fizzy]

And for anyone wondering we can ship up to 2000kg through the networks provided there are forklifts at collection and delivery that can handle the weight.
We once shipped a nice Kingsland Ironworker that was right on the limit. Booked as 2x full pallets.

 

[BarrieJ]

Table centrepiece for a customer, about 1992?

 

[BarrieJ]

Archway and gate.
The customer intended it to be placed so that the 'circle' formed
between the arch and the gate framed the rising sun.

Apologies for the very poor quality, from a colour print taken
over twenty/thirty years ago.

 

[h-dom]

@BarrieJ lovely work, are you still doing it?

 

[h-dom]

And thanks to @fizzy and his team a collection booked at 11.30am yesterday was delivered at 1.30pm today

A Norton no 8 fly press, much bigger than the old Denbigh No 4, photos tomorrow and hopefully I'll get to bolt it down and test it out! It's a beast, takes 40mm tooling rather than 1" so I'll need to find some 40mm bar and collars to adapt all my tooling.

 

[fizzy]

And thanks to @fizzy and his team a collection booked at 11.30am yesterday was delivered at 1.30pm today

A Norton no 8 fly press, much bigger than the old Denbigh No 4, photos tomorrow and hopefully I'll get to bolt it down and test it out! It's a beast, takes 40mm tooling rather than 1" so I'll need to find some 40mm bar and collars to adapt all my tooling.

Wow not bad
Can you leave us some nice reviews please? They all help!

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

And thanks to @fizzy and his team a collection booked at 11.30am yesterday was delivered at 1.30pm today

A Norton no 8 fly press, much bigger than the old Denbigh No 4, photos tomorrow and hopefully I'll get to bolt it down and test it out! It's a beast, takes 40mm tooling rather than 1" so I'll need to find some 40mm bar and collars to adapt all my tooling.

Do you have enough daylight to add a 1" - 40mm tool holder? It'd be a load easier than modifying all your tooling.

Sorry to hear of the demise of your denbigh - I've literally just mounted a nice no.4 denbigh - haven't even tried it out yet!

 

[h-dom]

Do you have enough daylight to add a 1" - 40mm tool holder? It'd be a load easier than modifying all your tooling.

Sorry to hear of the demise of your denbigh - I've literally just mounted a nice no.4 denbigh - haven't even tried it out yet!

Possibly, I will have to check, although I did sometimes struggle with the amount of daylight on the Denbigh for what I was using it for so the extra room will certainly come in useful.

If you need any extra parts for your Denbigh let me know! The handle, screw and ram etc are all fine as far as I can see.

The No 8 in place and ready to be bolted down. I will have to extend the table a little to bolt it down at the front too, although it certainly won't be going anywhere!

Hopefully the colour scheme will stop me whacking my head on it at least three times a day.

 

[h-dom]

Wow not bad
Can you leave us some nice reviews please? They all help!

Review left on trustpilot!

 

[h-dom]

Ugh, in the air while I clean and get ready to mark for some new anchors in the concrete, it was ever so slightly too close to the wall before. So cutting the old ones off and tapping them in and then drilling for some new ones.

 

[fizzy]

Review left on trustpilot!

Thanks

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

What was actually wrong with the Denbigh? If it's just slop in the toroid/screw junction that can be adjusted out? That said, mine has a little slop in the actual screw/casting, but not nearly enough to affect it.

Would you mind me posting up some of my meager blacksmith attempts?

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

Hdom, I was going to PM you, but I can't (I suspect because I have too few posts...). I don't want to sound like a vulture, but if the no.4 is scrap, I would like the fly weigh to add a second to mine

As penance for my cheek, I'll offer a pic of one of my efforts...

 

[bourbon]

Hdom, I was going to PM you, but I can't (I suspect because I have too few posts...). I don't want to sound like a vulture, but if the no.4 is scrap, I would like the fly weigh to add a second to mine

As penance for my cheek, I'll offer a pic of one of my efforts...

View attachment 372163Nice Knife. You don't need another weight on it, just swing it harder! The one at work hadn't had any on in the 36 years I had been there. pretty sure that was a war time vintage one. Scrapped now, Like so many things at the place

 

[h-dom]

Hdom, I was going to PM you, but I can't (I suspect because I have too few posts...). I don't want to sound like a vulture, but if the no.4 is scrap, I would like the fly weigh to add a second to mine

As penance for my cheek, I'll offer a pic of one of my efforts...

View attachment 372163

Nice!

The weight I had wasn't original unfortunately, it was just a steel cylinder with a hole in. I've kept it because I know I might find a use for it one day.

The slop is in the casting section on the knuckle? area. There's no adjusting it and I think part of it has broken off.

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

Ah, fair enough - not often they actually fail!

Pics of your flypress tools would be interesting... especially your handle eye drift. I've never used a flypress before, and never made a hammer either...

 

[Screwdriver]

Hdom, I was going to PM you, but I can't (I suspect because I have too few posts...). I don't want to sound like a vulture, but if the no.4 is scrap, I would like the fly weigh to add a second to mine

As penance for my cheek, I'll offer a pic of one of my efforts...

View attachment 372163

That’s very nice. Nice design, great execution .

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

Dom hasn't added to this thread in a while, so I will (C'mon Dom!!)... I made these as little presents for some friends for Christmas.

If you've ever seen Forged in Fire, you'll have heard of canister damascus; Basically, welding caps on a piece of box section, and filling it with 'bits' of high carbon steel and powdered Steel. They use a hydraulic press and power hammer...

Anyways, I don't have a hydraulic press, nor power hammer, but the wife thought it'd be funny to buy me some powdered steel to see if I could do a canister. Turns out, I can*

This is actually my second (successful) canister, and is made of 6mm 52100 ball bearings and 1095 powder. The first one (using 3mm ball bearings) ended up looking like this;

From this;

*As it turns out, I can also weld well enough to make the canister airtight... there was a *small* explosion at one point... I now add an airhole.

 

[Screwdriver]

Nice work @My_Teenage_Self love the skulls and blade looks great.

Handle is a bit chunky. I think it would look better with less of a bulge at the back and maybe an heirloom fit at the front where it meets the bolster. I only mention it because it's pretty obvious you have the skills to do it.