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>>727516
Anything I feel like. Currently working on a tripod for a kettle to be used over bonfires.
Also the mandatory knives. I want to learn to make spoons. And I need to make a shark. And a few hammers. And a few more tongs. And some punches.
Damn it, why do I have so much Uni coursework to do...

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>>727174
That's nothing. My previous forge was 80% wood. It did catch fire after a few months, but it worked.

>> No.721369 [View]

>>721297
Depends. If you want to do it yourself you should look it up first. >>721304 is the way to do it, but there's lots of fiddly bits.

Otherwise >>721238 has the right idea, get a professional to do it. Don't think it'll cost too much if there's someone local.

>> No.721294 [View]

>>721254
Carving wax is one step up from playing with playdoh. Buy a candle and find something pointy, like a pin, knife or pen. You may not get amazing results first try, but you can melt the wax back into a block on a stove and keep trying.

>> No.721217 [View]

Might I ask what tools and/or experience you have?
If you have something like a dremmel you could probably carve it out of a small block of aluminium and then rough it up with a hammer.

You might be able to sculpt it with a hammer, chisel and a punch if you have a vice and a blowtorch.

Last option I'll give you is the least beginner friendly (for me at least) and that would be lost wax casting. You would need to carve a bit of wax into the shape you want, cover it in plaster of paris, burn out all the wax and then pour molten metal into the cavity. Can be a bit dangerous and I've never quite got the hang of it.

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>>718342
Mine are all forged.

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Let's have a quick poll: Forging or stock removal?

>> No.714394 [View]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZANPLXHcI-8

>> No.710884 [View]

>>710852
I'm not >>710850 but I think it would work like a library, Hammer number 3 is on wall 2, shelf 5, 3rd box etc.

Currently I am working with the "Damn it, I know it's around here somewhere" method of tool storage. I'm currently building a new shed for everything to go in, but until then I just don't care.

>> No.710689 [View]

If you have to ask this question then I am going to recommend that you first learn what it is you are going to be trying to do, and how. Go look up some videos on youtube of what you want to be able to do, and then get those tools.

Taking a guess at what you mean by smallish, and at how much of this you are likely to do, and that you are probably not very rich, you will want:
-Vice (4 to 6 inches)
-Some form of mount you can hold a drill with so you can use a sanding disk attachment comfortably.
-Hammers (Medium ball peen, small mallet, wooden/lead)
-Chisels (Very small, small, medium and large)
-Rasps (Flat and round)
-Metal files (Huge and small, both flat preferably, half round will do and a medium round, possibly also a set of misc diamond files)
-Bench Grinder.

>> No.676963 [View]

Ebay + Orange + Acrylic + sheet.

>> No.676184 [View]

>>676066
Merely to defend myself, I think you are misunderstanding what I was trying to say. What I was trying to say is that the only time you properly quench steel is in order to harden it. I wasn't saying that the only thing you need to do to harden it is to quench it. And I also went on to say that it wasn't even a good idea.

But I do admit that I got the spark test completely wrong. I never bother to use it.

>> No.676060 [View]

You only need to quench steel to harden it, something like this shouldn't need that as you would just make it more brittle than necessary. (hard = brittle). If you haven't hardened the steel you don't need top temper it either as tempering is making it softer.

Finding out what kind of steel you have is a bit tricky, the best I can offer you is called the spark test, where you take a grinder to it and look at the colour of the sparks. The brighter the sparks the higher the carbon content (redish is low, whitish is high), but since it's a beam, it's likely to be fairly low.

As to how hot, if you are just bending the metal, as soon as it starts glowing (dull red is about 700 Celsius in a dimly lit room) i would probably be enough, mostly just to soften the metal so that you actually can do it. Note that if you DO have a high carbon steel, you would need it to be hotter, but like I said you probably don't. It's a good idea to remove the corrosion from the part you are heating just because it slows down the heating up quite a bit. Unless it's really thin, in which case ignore it.

And like I said, if you don't harden you don't need to temper. Just don't dunk it in water and your steel will be as tough as it can be. (toughness is basically the resistance to sudden shocks and bending and so on, hardness is it's resistance to being scratched and penetrated).

As a final thought, you have made sure that the beam hasn't rusted through anywhere right?

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I have been grinding some scrollwork into a hilt.

>> No.674573 [View]

>>674552
I'm guessing that it's to break up the symmetry a little to draw the eye to it more.

>> No.672054 [View]

>>671887
4 layers folded 300 times would give you 4^300 layers = 4.15*10^180.
Assuming that your billet is 3cm think, this gives you a layer thickness of 0.03/4.15*10^180 = 7.2*10^-183m

This size of a single atom of iron is 126*10^-12m.
The 3cm think billet is therefore 238095238 atoms thick.

Put all that together and you find that EACH layer is 3.3*10^176 times SMALLER than a single atom of iron.

Please talk less rubbish.

>> No.672045 [View]

>>669052
I'd say it's hard to overstate how useful it is to have someone who knows what their doing showing you how to do it. If that involves you joining them, it is probably worth it.

>> No.672004 [View]

>>671860
I started using a pile of bricks, a metal pipe, a hair dryer and charcoal for my forge. And if you want a small anvil, get a big hammer and use that. Set it in a block of wood.

>> No.669039 [View]

>>669036
I'll remember to set a timer then. First time I etched I think I forgot about it for about an hour.

>> No.669034 [View]

>>669031
I have very little intention of making knives. I've made quite a few and I'm getting bored of them. I'm planning on making a file, a horseshoe, a candlestick and a new bottle opener.
So ALL I want is something that looks good. Except for the file. That actually needs to work.

Also, how long do you etch for?

>> No.668279 [View]

>>668271
God damn, now I need to make a pattern welded file... Hmmm, that's going to have to be immediately bumped up to number seven on my list of things to make.

>> No.668114 [View]

>>667971
Thanks for the names and advice.

Also, am I the only person in the world who wants to make things OTHER than knives out of pattern welded steel?

>> No.667953 [View]

>>667866
That looks interesting, and is definitely something I now have to try.

>>667908
That is beautiful, any idea which steels in particular give that effect?

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