![]() The next round of hammering was NOT gentle I really hit it hard and there wasn't one dark layer, not one. I was really pleased to see almost all the layers were the same color when I removed it and repeated the blows, pein down the center, flat to finish the join, reflux and back in the forge. Put it back and brought it to bright yellow and using the pein side of my turning hammer ran a stitch of blows down the center and finished with the fat face to close it all up. I preheated it in the forge to as close to orange as a loose stack of steel will get and fluxed it, then gave it a few taps to tighten up the stack. Dirt, rust and whatever was on it, I didn't even wipe it off with my hand, let alone my normal technique of sanding steel to be welded clean and bright if possible. Two pieces of blade, take two wraps with the banding, two more pieces of blade and two more wraps. As for prep, I didn't, I even rolled the banding around the saw blade lengthwise. I used two pieces per layer because I LIKE thicker layers in pattern welds. I made a stack of metal cutoff bandsaw blade and steel banding. I'd asked on IFI a while back if anyone had tried Patterson Flux in the forge, from the replies I guess not. I also drilled and tapped all the way through so if I break another bolt I'll be able to jam a bit from the other side and let it extract the bolt. Happily it worked the easy out drilled out without a problem so now the dovetail mount holes are chased and retapped to 7/16-20 and I'm going to use grade 8s this time. I tried the normal removal tactics and couldn't get it even with a diamond burr so I brought it up to no-magnetic in the forge, let it soak and turned the forge off, packed the openings and let it cool. I didn't pick up on the sound when the bolts started to loosen so it broke them. Sean came out and he got a nice candle holder finished, I'll pester him to post a couple pics.įor my part, I got the damaged top die dovetail repaired for my Little Giant. Hey guys, I had a reasonably successful day in the shop today.
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