It’s been pretty hot here and I’m heavily disincentivized from running a 2300F forge when it’s 90F out. I know kindling temperature for wood is around 350-400F, but humans melt into sweat puddles long before that. [If you don’t use Freedomheit, that’s 1260C and 204C]
San mai is Japanese for “three layers.” A few years ago, one manufacturer sent around “cease and desist” letters to many bladesmiths that were using that architecture, since their company felt they were the ones who made san mai great again, or something like that. They were roundly told to shove it, and it stuck because the manufacturer was not willing to spend Disney-amounts of money on lawyers.
My mind has been jumping around a lot, lately, between the swirling politics going on around us, and the earthly pleasure of trying to bend difficult materials to my will. This is a great example of someone using technology to do the latter (and some of the former) very effectively, and it makes me glad at many levels.
This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below:
This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below:
This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below:
Have you seen Werner Herzog’s film Fitzcarraldo? (1982)
This is a thing I made the other day; mostly it was a matter of rough-cutting with a diamond wheel then angle grinding it and eventually sanding it.
The test Dune egg is, well, done.
I declared June 10 to be “facial recognition” day, and this year I didn’t do a posting about it.