Last time I went to Dragonfly Forge, I took along a blade that was a failure, for “show and tell.” I didn’t feel I had anything good enough to show off, because mostly what I had been doing in the last year was gearing up and running experiments.
The forging press (“red press”) arrived today. I wish the building was ready but it’s not.
Ken’s crew was out with the little bobcat backhoe and made holes, so I limped out with my gouty foot and adjusted them with a shovel, shoved the hammer framework into the hole, and made a form around it.
Mike P and I went through the wakizashi fittings-making class at Dragonfly Forge together and have been chatting about knife-making and techniques ever since. Mike’s also a serious cook. He’s from Brazil, though, and uses massive amounts of meat in everything, while I’m trying (and succeeding!) in cutting way back.
This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [pha] for details. Rules are below:
This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [pha] for details. Rules are below:
Mike P and I [reddrag] often share our successes, and warn each other of our failures. Somehow we got on the subject of using nickel sheet in damascus in place of high nickel steel.
I’ve been doing some web design, and it really sucks with a gouty foot. You’ve got to picture me hopping around cursing without pausing for air. It’s finally receding a bit, which means it’s merely miserable.
Where we left things at last update, the steel building company was sending out a welder to cut out the gussets and move them. This happened, and the assembly of the building resumed.