Oryxdesign
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They have a rockwell testing machine at the Horsted branch of The Mid Kent College.
Enamel Kiln for hardening?
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jimi43
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Just to please one member of our community (oh and me...) I have made a pivotal decision....the BURR STAYS!!!
Yup...that old hunk of Capathian flora will forever be a photo stage....
I might slice a few bits off the top for veneers but I am beginning to love it for that purpose too!
Guys...thanks for the kind words but really...if you read back through the thread it is YOU...all of you that have inspired me and held my hand through this journey...from our dear Oz friend Derek in Perth...who started me off on Galoot making...through Aled and his wonderful shoulder plane kit which made me realise I could make something that worked...on through the many recommendations from Philly...and especially his fine Bristol cap...
Finally the many words of encouragement from all of you too numerous to mention...
I would also like to thank the director for his support.....(oops....sorry this isn't a BAFTA is it....)
I will be back with the burr suitably christened by this iron....but I will leave you with this little gem....
Annie said..."That looks just like a beautiful rosebud"
I might stick it on a stem and give it to her for our 30th anniversary on Monday!!!
Later guys and gals.
Jim
Yup...that old hunk of Capathian flora will forever be a photo stage....
I might slice a few bits off the top for veneers but I am beginning to love it for that purpose too!
Guys...thanks for the kind words but really...if you read back through the thread it is YOU...all of you that have inspired me and held my hand through this journey...from our dear Oz friend Derek in Perth...who started me off on Galoot making...through Aled and his wonderful shoulder plane kit which made me realise I could make something that worked...on through the many recommendations from Philly...and especially his fine Bristol cap...
Finally the many words of encouragement from all of you too numerous to mention...
I would also like to thank the director for his support.....(oops....sorry this isn't a BAFTA is it....)
I will be back with the burr suitably christened by this iron....but I will leave you with this little gem....
Annie said..."That looks just like a beautiful rosebud"
I might stick it on a stem and give it to her for our 30th anniversary on Monday!!!
Later guys and gals.
Jim
Mr Ed
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Excellent outcome and an enjoyable wip to read.
It does however, make me realise that I can't be bothered with all that myself, but fascinating to see someone else do it nonetheless.
Ed
It does however, make me realise that I can't be bothered with all that myself, but fascinating to see someone else do it nonetheless.
Ed
jimi43
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Pete Maddex":fnk8woyl said:
Yes Pete....I saw that slippery slope whiz past on the black plane run this morning....
Unfortunately (or fortunately for the moment), me ski stick snapped when I tried to turn (made of Indian Rosewood ya see!) and I avoided a detour (for now!) :wink:
BUT...I have a few fruit trees that need "pruning" and some 01 gauge steel and um...the kiln....
Back in a mo.....................................
Jim
:wink: Next thing you know he'll be muscles all over, have a big hairy chest and be ambling around in a dirty old leather apron - before having his way with 'apprentices' around the back of t' forge....
jimi43
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HA!! Good one Ian....can I choose the apprentices? :wink: 8)
BUT...I must not digress into fantasy...since today (the fifth) is indeed our 30th anniversary and you lot thought I was joking about the rose....didn't ya!!
Well...I wasn't and here is the proof....
That beautiful shaving....from the handmade plane and blade....a bit of scrap oak whittled with the upgraded spokeshave and some rosewood thorns chipped and shaped with my little Japanese paring chisel....voila!
NOW...since women LOVE single red roses and since this is a one off from all the loves in my life to the main love in my life...
Well...I think this amounts to a HUGE amount of brownie points and total pass to all events wooden for the next 10 years...
What do you guys think?
Nite folks! :wink:
Jim
BUT...I must not digress into fantasy...since today (the fifth) is indeed our 30th anniversary and you lot thought I was joking about the rose....didn't ya!!
Well...I wasn't and here is the proof....
That beautiful shaving....from the handmade plane and blade....a bit of scrap oak whittled with the upgraded spokeshave and some rosewood thorns chipped and shaped with my little Japanese paring chisel....voila!
NOW...since women LOVE single red roses and since this is a one off from all the loves in my life to the main love in my life...
Well...I think this amounts to a HUGE amount of brownie points and total pass to all events wooden for the next 10 years...
What do you guys think?
Nite folks! :wink:
Jim
Fantastic.
Really looks like a rose!
No washing up for a month I think.
Mick
Really looks like a rose!
No washing up for a month I think.
Mick
CHJ
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I think you MIGHT just get away with it as long as there is a 3 Row string of Natural Pearls in the accompanying box :lol:
Philly
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Bravo! Well done, Jim!
Philly
Philly
Wow. That is superb. Must just make sure SWMBO doesn't see it......
Seriously, what did you use for colouring and finishing the red bit?
Seriously, what did you use for colouring and finishing the red bit?
jimi43
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Well that worked brilliantly...highly recommended guys....
Thanks for the comments...
****...it was light red powder stain that I usually mix with brown to get the various colours I need for tinting mahogany. I can mix it with water, meths or nitro but this was with meths.
I just put the powder dry in a flat tin...put the raw pine shaving in on its end and poured meths over it. The stain then migrated up the shaving by capilliary action and was darker at the bottom than the top.
The shaving then started to warp at the top and split along the edge just like a rose petal...
The dead bud petals are just shavings with no stain cut with a razor knife to a point and then curled along a sharp edge.
More luck than judgement!
Cheers
Jim
Thanks for the comments...
****...it was light red powder stain that I usually mix with brown to get the various colours I need for tinting mahogany. I can mix it with water, meths or nitro but this was with meths.
I just put the powder dry in a flat tin...put the raw pine shaving in on its end and poured meths over it. The stain then migrated up the shaving by capilliary action and was darker at the bottom than the top.
The shaving then started to warp at the top and split along the edge just like a rose petal...
The dead bud petals are just shavings with no stain cut with a razor knife to a point and then curled along a sharp edge.
More luck than judgement!
Cheers
Jim
wobblycogs
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I've some how missed this thread till now but it's made fascinating reading and congratulations on hardening your first blade.
Please feel free to ignore my little walk down memory lane below...
I used to work in a lab making weird and wonderful ceramics (mostly superconductors) where the firing temperatures were well over 1000 deg C. quenching from those sorts of temperatures is scary! We used long tongs, a face shield and special heat proof gauntlets to take things in and out of the ovens which were never allowed to go below 900 deg C. I seem to remember the gauntlets were rather expensive but they did the trick. I only remember feeling any heat once when I had to take something out at 1350 and the gloves started smoking!
As for quenching we did use liquid nitrogen but it was hard to get a good quench with it. The problem is it's not very wet and it vaporises rather easily. Water was probably the best we used. We never tried oil because we didn't want to contaminate the samples. We also didn't swirl the samples about we just dropped them into the liquid, they were held off the bottom of the container by a wire cooling rack. Of course we weren't interested in sharpening the samples afterward...
Please feel free to ignore my little walk down memory lane below...
I used to work in a lab making weird and wonderful ceramics (mostly superconductors) where the firing temperatures were well over 1000 deg C. quenching from those sorts of temperatures is scary! We used long tongs, a face shield and special heat proof gauntlets to take things in and out of the ovens which were never allowed to go below 900 deg C. I seem to remember the gauntlets were rather expensive but they did the trick. I only remember feeling any heat once when I had to take something out at 1350 and the gloves started smoking!
As for quenching we did use liquid nitrogen but it was hard to get a good quench with it. The problem is it's not very wet and it vaporises rather easily. Water was probably the best we used. We never tried oil because we didn't want to contaminate the samples. We also didn't swirl the samples about we just dropped them into the liquid, they were held off the bottom of the container by a wire cooling rack. Of course we weren't interested in sharpening the samples afterward...
