WillC
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Hello all, I know you all like a work in progress, so here is one revisited and updated following on from the Damascus masterclass I took with Ed Schempp, Hank Knickmeyer and Matt Diskin at Docs for gin in plymouth. This featured heavily working in powdered metals, a treat for us as we have no suitable supply of powder metals here in the uk.
So to revisit and sum up on the Masterclass....Some pictures and explanation.
Back to school.....but with naughtier students:big grin:
Hank demonstrating filling a can with different powders. A pattern is laid out inside a 100mm piece of box section in nickel sheet, the voids are then filled with different powder steels to give contrast.
This is my design half filled, nickel tubes and scrolls, filled with different powder steels.
Various cans ready to be forged. I managed to get two patterns together.
15 minutes at around gas mark five, leaves time to do a little dance.
And out into the squaring dies in a suitable press....
The material is very different to work at this point to layers, must be worked slowly at first, its spongy and molten and you have to massage it together before giving it some
Then into the big hammer, 100mm down to 51mm square in one heat with time to spare, gotta love a BIG hammer. :spin chair:
While we waited for the pieces to cool, we managed to get a quick look at the Street Fair happening around the corner.....and the local pole dancers doing their thing:big eek:
Not sure if Doc did her Tattoos
So at the end and a quick dirty etch I had a big lump of this
And another flamy one I forgot to photograph.......
So to revisit and sum up on the Masterclass....Some pictures and explanation.
Back to school.....but with naughtier students:big grin:
Hank demonstrating filling a can with different powders. A pattern is laid out inside a 100mm piece of box section in nickel sheet, the voids are then filled with different powder steels to give contrast.
This is my design half filled, nickel tubes and scrolls, filled with different powder steels.
Various cans ready to be forged. I managed to get two patterns together.
15 minutes at around gas mark five, leaves time to do a little dance.
And out into the squaring dies in a suitable press....
The material is very different to work at this point to layers, must be worked slowly at first, its spongy and molten and you have to massage it together before giving it some
Then into the big hammer, 100mm down to 51mm square in one heat with time to spare, gotta love a BIG hammer. :spin chair:
While we waited for the pieces to cool, we managed to get a quick look at the Street Fair happening around the corner.....and the local pole dancers doing their thing:big eek:
Not sure if Doc did her Tattoos
So at the end and a quick dirty etch I had a big lump of this
And another flamy one I forgot to photograph.......