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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 30, 2019
    • Art, Badger Forge

    ‘Tis The Season To Get Stabby

    Someone commented somewhere about how I was outfitting people with “stabby things.” I have to say that most of what I have published so far are cooking knives of some sort or another. This is a “stabby thing.”

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 29, 2019
    • Art, Badger Forge

    Voyager’s Rover

    Experiments are still my favorite thing to build, because they always come with some new problem-solving sets.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 21, 2019
    • Art, Badger Forge

    Turn it Up To 11

    I know that cosmetic things don’t improve machinery’s lifespan or behavior.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 20, 2019
    • Art, Badger Forge

    It’s a Nice Day for Some White Welding

    Recent discussion [stderr] got me thinking about safety shoes. For the last two years my official forging shoes have been a pair of old Timberland “euro hikers” (that I wore to Chernobyl) but I know that the laces are flammable because I already set them on fire once.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 18, 2019
    • Art, Badger Forge

    Winner Take All

    The “winner’s choice” benefit blade is done, sharpened, and shipped. I am told that it arrived safely, which is always a relief.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 14, 2019
    • Art, Badger Forge

    The Kunstwistergrabber

    Where I left the damascus-twister, it was mostly an idea and a pile of parts.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 13, 2019
    • Art, Badger Forge

    A Blacksmith Walks Into a Bar…

    and says “nice weld.” Or something.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 5, 2019
    • Art, Badger Forge

    A Tale of First World Woe

    As they say “a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work.” So I can hardly complain. But I’m going to make some whiny noises anyway.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 4, 2019
    • Art, Badger Forge

    A Learning Experience

    I had managed to forget that silver work hardens. To soften silver you heat it to red heat (which is just below its melting temperature) and dunk it in cold water. This is exactly the opposite process for hardening steel.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • October 30, 2019
    • Art, Badger Forge
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