Blacksmith: Making an acorn spring swage, part 2.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- This is part 2 of making an acorn spring swage in which I make an acorn template and use it to make the ipression in the swage before case hardening the tool and using it!
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The process from start to finish was fascinating. Lots of creative "modern" ideas combined with traditional methods were surprising to see - thanks for this.
No worries :) I needed one so figured I would film it!
sure like the videos and your funny humor comments keep up the cool work
Thanks Wade :)
Really cool,thank you,you just saved us all 75 dollars.
Who's the the schmuck that dislikes this? Fantastic video Rowan! Great videography, narration, and topic! Guess what's being added to the shop to-make list?
Strange how the second video has more views than the first! Awesome video as always Rowan, you're one of the best.
Great vid as always. Really nice acorn, cool using the drill press. Lathed my last one but going to try your method. Thanks for yet another well made and factual vid keep them coming.
Thanks very much, Mark :) If I had a lathe (it's on my purchase list but I have kit I need to prioritise ahead of it) I would use that instead - I think I would get a faster result + I could do larger and more complex shapes, but the pillar drill is a good stand-in until I can afford the lathe.
well done my man a fantastic acorn
Nice video. im looking to get my own hobby Forge up soon and your who ive learnt almost everything from so far lol! great job.
Well done sir
Thanks Marc :)
Kasenite, is basicly "Sodium Ferrocyanide" which is a technical and food grade chemical that can be bough from a pharmacy or a chemical supplier.. One of its common uses is to stop road salt from caking up. =)
great video!
Thanks mate :)
Nice! Thankyou for sharing 👍 One of my next projects.
Wow! Simply wow!
Thanks Craig :D :D :D do you still have some vids coming up from BF2?
+RowanTaylor 2 scheduled for next two Sunday's, one on the cutting table and one in the trash, most footage I've had from one event so should have some decent video out of it, or I think so at least ;) also toms vids are coming too from the vanguards :D
Brilliant! I'll look forwards to today's for starters. I enjoyed Tom and Mike's last couple of vids. Tom's last vid I was on the edge of my seat with adrenaline pumping as though I was stalking with you guys, lol. With my vids I shoot for the edit so I only film what I need and don't give myself extra footage to sift through apart from a bit of B roll for time transitions. Not so easy to do for paintballing because you never know when you're going to get a contact during a big game lol.
+RowanTaylor yeah that's the difficult thing about paintball filming, as it's basically a byproduct of a weekends play. I can't stand staged paintball vids either as I'd rather watch an actual action film, but real gameplay does get you straight into being there along side the player. My version of toms tense video isn't till next Sunday, but we are both releasing a video today, mine with my selfie stick gameplay and his new shenanigans video, so good day to be s baller ;)
You could almost do with planting cameras around the place before the start of the game for paintball - but Jeez that would be a pain!. Just seen Tom's vid, lol. Waiting yours eagerly!
These dies maybe a little too small for this to work but for larger dies at least I've found that softening the sharp corners with an angle grinder wire wheel whilst the the dies are at a orangey/red works really well.
Very impressive
Nice 1 👍
what kind of power hammer are you using?
I noticed that you just have one long thumbnail, but everything else is trimmed shorter.
Out of curiosity, do you use that thumbnail for something?
I would guess he's a left handed guitarist
You're probably overthinking it guys haha,
Hi Rowan,
Great stuff, I wonder if the same thing can be done with copper?
Thanks mate :) You mean the swaging or using the pillar drill as a turning tool? Copper can probably be swaged quite easily as it is a lovely soft material. The only thing I would worry about would be the galling.
I mean the video in general was nice. Would it not make more sense to make the acorns from something that doesn’t take so much energy?
Why is this dust, which he put in the bottles? Thank romania
I dont know the exact penetration rates, but i tend to get it to a nice yeller heat, then chuck a bunch of case hardening powder in and take it back to the fire and hold it at a red-orange heat for a few minutes, brush the case hardening residue out and pop more fresh powder in. I repeat this so i have applied 3 lots of case hardening to it (Or four if its gonna have a hard life lol) then after the final soak in heat i drop it in the bosch like you do.
I think i remember something about the crack you hear when quenching it being indicative of something, but i dunno what now hahaha. I think the louder the crack the better the harden or something. how or why i don't know!
I think I remember something like that. I did give it two coats but forgot to mention it in the video lol. It certainly pop-pop-popped when it was hardening. I did it above critical for 30 minutes altogether, with a second coat of compound after 15 minutes. WIth a bit more powder I would have renewed it every 5 - 10 minutes . Where do you get your powder from? I think we had a discussion about this a few weeks ago...
+RowanTaylor I dunno, the boss gets it by the kilo or 5kilo bag. Probably from fleabay.
I'll go have a look now - need supplies off there anyhoo
Rowan In the US there is a company that sells a case hardening compound called Cherry Red. www.rosemill.com I am not Shure where you would buy it where you are maybe you could order it off the internet.
+Edge Precision
I've heard about this cherry red stuff but not from any smiths, only engineer hobbyists who don't really have much use for it, is it any good?
it would be good to know because, as rowan said, it's not so easy to get casenit over here at the minute.
Nice Mate! Again you make it look too easy.
Thanks mate :) Comes with practice and you'll make it look easy yourself once you've done it a few times lol
You are FAR better (More control) using sand paper-wet n dry is best. use spare belts and tare strips then hold in tension behind the work piece. You will have a nice concentric piece which will not require files. The grinder is much more apt for tool steel. Great video, as before I do enjoy your turn of phrase, its getting a bit blackadder in spots now!
Thanks for the tip - I will give it a go for other shapes. I've had to tone down my turn of phrase quite a lot as I've managed to offend a few people over the last 9 months, lol, but I see where you're coming from, lol.
Offend? Freedom of speech mate, if they don't like it they can bog off.
Uhg, no. Please don't dial back the jokes. I'd suggest just making "Complain About My Humour" an award level on Patreon.
4 years ago ? i was there 4 years ago .....
The company went out of business; that's why Kasenit no longer available.
question. for those of us watching you from America....would you mind talkimg both in metric AND standard?? thank you ....Skal!
What is standard? You mean imperial? Just google a unit conversion dude. I'm sure this guy is probably using metric because it tends to be a more widely used standard within engineering and related fields than imperial, not to make things more difficult for Americans. Believe me, I would know, being an American living in the UK and working within engineering for 11 years.
WTF is up with that thumbnail? You're going to get it ripped off one day.
I am not associated with the following link, I just wanted to give you folks a place to find material to case harden mild steel. I cannot vouch for this product. www.midwayusa.com/product/119479/cherry-red-surface-hardening-compound-1-lb. Hope it helps.