Stuff you have made today

[Onoff]

Are we talking about near Farthing Corner services on the M2? If so details please!

Brother said the guy is a character. There's an Alsation runs about trying to catch sparks off the angle grinders:

FAT MAN'S FORGE Blacksmith - Potters Barn Farm & Forge Hartlip, Kent

FAT MAN'S FORGE Blacksmith in Kent at Potters Barn Farm, Hartlip, Kent. Bespoke quality built blacksmith ironwork. Blacksmithing experience course days.

pottersbarnfarm.co.uk

 

[Brad93]

Every man and his dog doing these courses now.

@Windy Miller if you want to come up to me (other side of the dartford bridge) we have coke and gas forge, plus a power hammer and forging press.

 

[Onoff]

Every man and his dog doing these courses now.

@Windy Miller if you want to come up to me (other side of the dartford bridge) we have coke and gas forge, plus a power hammer and forging press.

My brother is a semi retired barrister. He's done a silversmithing course, copper rose making etc. There is clearly a market.

 

[Brad93]

My brother is a semi retired barrister. He's done a silversmithing course, copper rose making etc. There is clearly a market.

I take it your brother isn't normally a very hands on type? Making a copper rose is as simple as having a pair of snips, some solder and some copper sheet. I'd have never thought people would pay money to go on a course for such simple metalwork.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

I take it your brother isn't normally a very hands on type? Making a copper rose is as simple as having a pair of snips, some solder and some copper sheet. I'd have never thought people would pay money to go on a course for such simple metalwork.

Regardless of the relatives mentioned; There are quite a lot of people whose hands are “sewn to their butts.”

 

[Onoff]

I take it your brother isn't normally a very hands on type?

He's an ex REME then later Captain in the British Army bomb disposal so I think he can turn his hand alright. His civvy working life has been more cerebral.

For whatever reason he paid to go on a course to make this:

https://flic.kr/p/2p6KsA3

https://flic.kr/p/2p6KszX

He went here:

Silver Designed Personally

Design and make your own unique piece of jewellery at one of our Silversmithing Workshop days in Kent. Make your own wedding rings with us

silverdesignedpersonally.com

Don't forget this sort of thing is seen as artisan by folk with money. Just look at the crap gets sold on Money For Nothing.

If you offer such you probably need to have fresh ground coffee and a selection of hand crafted pastries. Pointing at the jar of Nescafe by the sink where you wash up likely won't impress! A catchy nickname would help, maybe a bandana too along with a friendly dog/cat

 

[minimutly]

There is an old welder's trick - welding a tin can with an electrode.

Old trick where I once worked was to put an unlit oxy acet torch in a coke tin, along with a welding rod connected up, but not turned on. Wait for an unsuspecting victim to turn up - wang the welder up and watch said victim pee his/her pants.... saw it happen.

 

[ukracer]

I take it your brother isn't normally a very hands on type? Making a copper rose is as simple as having a pair of snips, some solder and some copper sheet. I'd have never thought people would pay money to go on a course for such simple metalwork.

To be honest I play around with lots of stuff and I would not have a clue where to start making something like that.

Not sure I would pay money to learn but what he has produced looks well worth the cost.

 

[dobbslc]

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Can finally store these two on the wall now, instead of them littering the benches.

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Makita recip saw & compact Bosch SDS.

Makita!!!?

 

[Brad93]

I traced petal shapes from youtube, cut 0.9mm sheet with aviation snips, the brazed petals to copper stem.

I suppose the only complex equipment is the brazing gear.

 

[bricol]

I take it your brother isn't normally a very hands on type? Making a copper rose is as simple as having a pair of snips, some solder and some copper sheet. I'd have never thought people would pay money to go on a course for such simple metalwork.

I didn't do anything practical at school - no metal or wood work. But my dad was self employed, designing and building packaging machinery with a workshop at home, so I got to play. So while I have no interest in making roses, I have snips, hammers, files, etc. Not sure if my Edwards box and pan would help in making one or not

I guess someone who has pushed a pen, driven a mouse their entire life simply won't have any of it, but fancies a go - so where do you go, how do you start, what do you do if you've no idea, no knowledge, and in reality, no actual need - I learnt to cut, fold, weld as I needed to repair a car as a teenager, after learning electrics, hand tools etc racing model cars as a kid ( and it's amazing how many people simply don't know how to hold, or use, a screwdriver!) - so if you've got the time, inclination and the money, I guess it's a nice enough way to start and feel pleased about coming away with something to show for it, even if you never do it again.

 

[gaz1]

No pictures?

Didn’t we have a forum member try this a few years back? He made some repairs to a bicycle if I remember correctly.
A bit argumentative I seem to recall!

Thin sheet with arc is not difficult but its much easier if you use 1.6mm rods and an alu plate backing to pull some of the heat away.


Ah, then I'd have to fix furnace! My casting so far has not been too successful yet. I will get back onto the projects soon..

I think quickest will be to use bandsaw.

2.0 esab welding rods is what i have in stock i know the end has got to be hot so there is marks to get the tip hot before welding starts

the sheet is 1.5mm the box section is less than 1mm the last pic is the settings on a sip 90 arc welder

first off tack the 1.5 to the box section and then shape it straight inner tacks are whilst in place needed im welding left to right

 

[minimutly]

2.0 esab welding rods is what i have in stock i know the end has got to be hot so there is marks to get the tip hot before welding starts

the sheet is 1.5mm the box section is less than 1mm the last pic is the settings on a sip 90 arc welder

first off tack the 1.5 to the box section and then shape it straight inner tacks are whilst in place needed im welding left to right

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Ooo, I have one of them!

 

[500e]

It's not just making things like the rose it is visualizing them first, I have no concept of that style of thing & if I cant see it in my minds eye it as near impossible for me to make it.
If your brother was bomb disposal has Balls and a steady hand fair play to him

 

[DAPPH]

My brother made this axe. At a blacksmithing day down near Farthing Corner. He says himself that it's pretty rough and ready. Flat piece of mild steel bent and shaped to form the eye and blade and then a billet of high carbon steel forged in to form the cutting edge.

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If you don't have them for the Tirfor or electric winch .... Get him to make in mild steel 4 anchor strips 60 x 60 x 8 mm or so thick angle with six staggered anchor pin holes ( 3 each side ) with 35 mm in dia pin hole in each strip ) .
Pins to have a hot forged point being 900 mm long x 25 mm AF hex anchor pins with a 15 mm thick 60x60 thick extractor lugs welded both sides on opposite faces with a hole in them big enough to take the anchor pin to help in getting them out . Plasma cut the lugs and holes ???
Forge the ends of the angle flat on each end so they are double thick mess and put a 35 mm holes in the flattened double up ends to take a decent shackle so they can be run out in a chain or a fan network . They are light enough to hump about one handed and yet each anchor link can hold about 3-5 tons fully pinned with the pins @ 750 deep at 60 to 45 degree with points towards the load and cross angled at 45 degree under the inverted angle iron links .

 

[Kram]

My brother made this axe. At a blacksmithing day down near Farthing Corner. He says himself that it's pretty rough and ready. Flat piece of mild steel bent and shaped to form the eye and blade and then a billet of high carbon steel forged in to form the cutting edge.

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Good for onions?

 

[Guineafowl]

Made this little catch plate for a mate’s incubator. As it turns, the pin moves in a slot in a tray, rolling the eggs round every now and again.

The hub is driven by a D shaped shaft, but since I can’t make a D shaped hole, I went for a grub screw.

Black plastic was an offcut from an engineering shop, so I guess Delrin?

 

[3000alloy]

It's been awhile....

So this is the result me rooting at Fusion360 for a month on and off. Leaf shoot collector for my ride on. So far just mocked up in PLA. I have ABS waiting for the final version that should hopefully this week. Obviously a pipe will be connected to a collection bin on the rearr

 

[Tupers]

Had a lot of nasty repairs and rot in the back half of the Minis boot floor.

Made a new section and spot welded new closing panel on.

Threw it at the car so fast it got suck on.

 

[henry Kadzielski]

Threw it at the car so fast it got suck on.

You should come here and throw **** around.