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- Aug 4, 2024
Havent been able to forge in 2 weeks, its way too hot to spend an entire day at the forge.
>be me
>yesterday
>31c
>hot as fuck sun
>forge is in its own building thats a repurposed sheetmetal garage
>go do polishing with the rotary bench tool(the polishing wax stains everything and it doesnt come off wood so i keep it outside)
>look at temp meter
>51c
>fuqqq
>just as a test i turn on gas forge, turn on ventilation in the forging area
>wait 30 minutes
>64c
>leave
>start the sauna oven
>wait 60 minutes
>80c
>ah perfect, il go relax and get away from the horrific heat outside in the sauna that is nearly triple the temperature!
Havent done "sorko" style handles before.
Sorkoupotus is when you hammer in 0.1-0.2mm thick, work hardened/roll hardened silver/brass/nickel silver into a birch bark handle.
Thats what ive been trying. The thing with it is, a complex handle takes maybe a hundred individual pieces of thin metal.
Not mine, im just trying to make the alphabet this way properly.
Ive avoided trying this because its incredibly hard and time consuming. If you fuck up hammering in the piece, it might leave a really ugly pit into the soft birch bark.
If someone reads this and thinks "huh birch bark handle? thats gotta be easy to form into a handle!" its not. It will immediately gunk up sandpaper and if youre using a powertool, excessive heat from friction of whopping 60c will make it so that the gunk is hard to remove. Youl basically be changing out your sandpaper on a powertool constantly.
(hand wire brush and alcohol/brakecleaner works),
Oh and metal dust/powder that is created from sanding with GREATER THAN 320p will permanently stain it and it needs to be sanded off, so polishing the brass pieces on both ends of the handle needs some more work than normally.
>be me
>yesterday
>31c
>hot as fuck sun
>forge is in its own building thats a repurposed sheetmetal garage
>go do polishing with the rotary bench tool(the polishing wax stains everything and it doesnt come off wood so i keep it outside)
>look at temp meter
>51c
>fuqqq
>just as a test i turn on gas forge, turn on ventilation in the forging area
>wait 30 minutes
>64c
>leave
>start the sauna oven
>wait 60 minutes
>80c
>ah perfect, il go relax and get away from the horrific heat outside in the sauna that is nearly triple the temperature!
Havent done "sorko" style handles before.
Sorkoupotus is when you hammer in 0.1-0.2mm thick, work hardened/roll hardened silver/brass/nickel silver into a birch bark handle.
Thats what ive been trying. The thing with it is, a complex handle takes maybe a hundred individual pieces of thin metal.
Not mine, im just trying to make the alphabet this way properly.
Ive avoided trying this because its incredibly hard and time consuming. If you fuck up hammering in the piece, it might leave a really ugly pit into the soft birch bark.
If someone reads this and thinks "huh birch bark handle? thats gotta be easy to form into a handle!" its not. It will immediately gunk up sandpaper and if youre using a powertool, excessive heat from friction of whopping 60c will make it so that the gunk is hard to remove. Youl basically be changing out your sandpaper on a powertool constantly.
(hand wire brush and alcohol/brakecleaner works),
Oh and metal dust/powder that is created from sanding with GREATER THAN 320p will permanently stain it and it needs to be sanded off, so polishing the brass pieces on both ends of the handle needs some more work than normally.