This was written back in the beginning of May and put in draft mode, not publish mode.
News from Grimmsfield
I seem to have been spending more time in my forge, but documenting it less and less. A lot of what I have been working on is not as exciting as some of my other projects and some is not SCa related and therefore does not need as much as well. but here is what I have been working on over the last month:
Blacksmith guillotine
The first thing to get done was the making of a Blacksmith guillotine. This involved finally taking the plunge and forcing myself to get acquainted with the my mig welding machine. I don’t know why i had such an aversion to using it , I’m not good at it, but it was no problem using it to make the tool. A Blacksmith guillotine tool is a tool used to hold a top and bottom fuller in place when you are working by yourself. I needed one to put tenons on the ends of rods as a way of joining 2 pieces of metal. the formation of a teno n is shown in the last 2 pictures.
The other thing that I worked on over the past few weeks was a hall table for my wife. This is the first time in a long, long time that I created something just for the sake of creating. No constraints on my design but was I was capable of making. It was all made from found items around Grimmsfield. The metal came from extra pieces that were purchased for other projects and the same is true of the wood. Once again I did not document much of the process and a lot of it was metalworking and not purely blacksmithing. Here is what few pics I took:
