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UnicornForge
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Re: Progress? How are you doing?
« Reply #15 on: Aug 1st, 2008, 10:57am » |
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I have posted photographs on some of the tools I have been working on lately, in preparation for making the wheels for the traveling forge. If anyone wishes to view the pictures as well as some descriptions, the URL is:
http://wiki.bgcmonline.org/bin/view/BlacksmithInfo/WoodenWheelConstruction
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Traveling Forge close to being finished, just needs to finish the wheels, finish bellows, and the plumbing.
Hobbyist Blacksmith for over 35 years.
I don't consider myself a reenactor; just a blacksmith.
Yes I'm a farb, I don't have body lice, I don't smell like a dead horse and I have all my teeth.
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Re: Progress? How are you doing?
« Reply #16 on: May 14th, 2009, 04:46am » |
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Last weekend I made tire bolts, and installed them in my two wheels. The difficult part was countersinking the bolts into the 1/2 inch thick tires because the drill press does not have enough horsepower.
I have started cleaning up and preparing the wheels for painting. This process includes rounding the inside edges of the fellows, and applying coats of linseed oil to seal and protect the wood as described in the original specifications.
I have invested too much time and money into these wheels to take shortcuts in protecting them from the weather.
Figuring out how to build the wheels, and making the necessary tools to build the wheels, has been a real challenge and taken a lot of time and effort. However, I learned a lot from doing it.
I don't expect to get too much done this weekend as the local blacksmith guild is having its annual "Blacksmith Days" at the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster Maryland.
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Traveling Forge close to being finished, just needs to finish the wheels, finish bellows, and the plumbing.
Hobbyist Blacksmith for over 35 years.
I don't consider myself a reenactor; just a blacksmith.
Yes I'm a farb, I don't have body lice, I don't smell like a dead horse and I have all my teeth.
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Re: Progress? How are you doing?
« Reply #17 on: Jul 13th, 2009, 5:18pm » |
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I have made the back plate for the firebox, and I am now looking at rebuilding the boards for the bellows. Of the parts that I have already made using the Mordecai specifications, the oak middle board by itself weighs by itself about 60 pounds, and figure that a ~200 pound bellows would be too much for a single person to install inside the bellows house, as well as too big to maintain.
To reduce the weight of the bellows I have started making parts for a bellows that will be made from pine and poplar boards and have a rubberized canvas cover. If you look on the internet you will find something called "bellows cloth" which is used in musical instruments, and is basically rubberized cotton canvas. A local smith came up with the idea of applying tool dip to canvas to rubberize it.
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Traveling Forge close to being finished, just needs to finish the wheels, finish bellows, and the plumbing.
Hobbyist Blacksmith for over 35 years.
I don't consider myself a reenactor; just a blacksmith.
Yes I'm a farb, I don't have body lice, I don't smell like a dead horse and I have all my teeth.
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