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I better be off to bed.
To me a good vacation /weekend is one that I have to go to work to catch up on my rest!
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Originally Posted by
32t
That's me swinging the sledge to work down the meteorite billet, with andy Lewis handling the tongs to move the billet so that I always strike the middle of the anvil.
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Originally Posted by
petercp4e
That's me with the hat, talking to Victor while I'm waiting for a billet to get to temperature.
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32t
Cutting a slice of meatloaf, ehm... meteorite loaf :D
There is so much nickel inside that it took 2.5 hours for the bandsaw to get through it.
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Mouse and friends waiting in the lounge with me
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Arriving at the Shop
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My breakfast after some of the bacon was already gone
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A bouquet forged by local blacksmith Larry
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the grill master in his natural habitat
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The inside of the big welding forge
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a slice of the meteorite loaf
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A 5 layer billet with 3 layers of 1095 and 2 layers of meteorite
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The billet after welding it together, with help from Andy Lewis who handled the tongs so that I could strike with 2 hands. the crusty stuff on the outside is crust of the meteorite that got squeezed out.
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2 pieces of twisted damascus with 11 layers
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2 pieces of 9 layer damascus with just parallel lines
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Super funky wonky damascus. This was made in 5 or 6 steps, with the billet being split in different piece that were twissted differently, nickel shims inserted at various moments, and then combined and twisted again at the end. I cut the final bar in half and used one of the pieces to weld a wootz piece underneath it for the edge.
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2 razor blanks I forged. These are 5 layers each, with the odd layers being a twisted from 5 layers of steel.
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My meteorite
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The meteorite billet. It needs 4 more folds.
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Ron arrived home at midnight and I arrived at 1:30 am.
All safe and sound. 😊