Felt roof of leftovers

Cover  from bad weather.

I and a couple of teen, pile of leftover felt pieces and thousands of nails.

Four evenings ruthless mounting, and there it is waterproof  coating on my smithy.

Electrician, bricklayer guys and I installing glass wool insulation on the ceiling.
  After That floor preparation and casting stands for airhammer, spring hammer, drop hammer ...


-J-

Under construction - progress - setback.

I had a good feel for my new smithy, but..

We got the roof watertight just before Christmas 2011.

Ther is no snow or freezin weather, wonderfull time to construct outer parts for winter.

I like idea finish inside, when winter weather coming.

Then comes Boxing Day, yeh, and srongest storm for a while (100year :))

Winds blow like a Big Bad Wolf and rip half of my smithys roof of.

25 kg OSB plates fly abuot 100meters away


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Okay, I´ll been a bit lazy blogger, sorry.
There are few sketch including this, now I´m bit flu and have a time
to finnish these stories.

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I promised to my neighbor move in my new smithy this autumn hhhmmm...
To do list is looong

cast floor,
install electricity,
the inner walls of the brick,
 roof, inside and ouside.....

I´ll try

Janne

ps. my smithy is neighbor old workshop and I was orginally supose to move a year ago

Wootz

(Great) success

Two bars of  Wootz

8x22x250mm, half of A2 ingot, smelt Dec 2011.

Forged first with springhammer 20kg,

then  airhammer(30-40kg?) Sweet.

15x25x300mm half of nro:7 A5 ingot, smelt Jan 2011.

Forged with same airhammer

That bigger ingot half (7th) rolling on smithys corners(waste:)) allmost a year.

Ingot nro:7  Been hot? (Ollut kuumana) pic date 23012011

 Other half, forged about a year ago.

There is some progress, foging a Wootz :D,

or it been bit a raw until now;)

B.Sofa.

Under construction - progress

Wooha!

Steel and wood structures are installed, next some roof things.

Very rewarding when you can build a steel structures on proper metal workshop.
 Condition of the machinery and tools, and materials available :) , and at an affordable price :D .

"You can choose and collect there and there everything you need, if you accept these rust steel"

???

"okay"

Little bit over measured steel parts, but WTF, now it´s done and no doubt tough enough?

Whether some information about where is time to buy?

I have so much stories to blog, but no time to write, Wootz things on frontline.

A small quiz:

 How much weight is  6(six)litres of Wootz ignot;)

Put your answer on comment area.

Halibatzuibaa, B.Sofa!

ps. Now i have little bit time to play ... BF3 ... I love it;).



Good vibration

Homma etenee.

Taas on palattu rakennushommiin, anturan valua valmistellaan.

Viimeinen kerros mursketta pitää tiivistää ja kun paikallinen

rakennuslaite vuokraamo on lomalla, saa kaivella perälatoja.

Tällainen tupaöljyllä toimiva hydraulinen hyppykeppi á 142kg

tuli kaivettua eräästä suulista, ykkösellä käyntiin :D.

Koirakin siihen tuli isäntäänsä puolustamaan, tuolta möröltä:).

No mutta tulipahan parikin kertaa kierrettyä tätä rataa.

Ja varmasti on piukassa, hieman rapeaa on tuo pintamurske,

oli 0-32mm nyt pinta on 0-16mm ja enimmäkseen alle 5mm.

Enää harkot valumuotiksi, muovi ja raudoitus, sitten valut, tällä kertaa betonilla.

Kaikkeen sitä ryhyy vaikkei pakko olisi,

 huomaa turva reiskat jalassa ja muutkin suojavälineet.

Näistä piha hommista vielä sen verran, kun tuossa liuskekiveä pihaan asentelin osui silmääni jotain.

pienen tutkiskelun jälkeen alkoi armoton laattojen silppuaminen;),

 jotta Hematiitti helmet ja limput saan talteen.

Onneksi tuli hieman ylimmääräistä liusketta, ettei betonilaattaan tarvitse vaihtaa.

Pihalaatta petrologi:   B.Sofa

Wootz again.

I have other source for wootz(the real one) NH

Before forging this bar, look out my own steel cake.

Some blade made of this little raw ignot

Same blade different sides

Edge is too brittle, maybe new heat treatment help with this prob or addmixes causes that, there is lot of V, Cr, Co, W...

Pattern welded blade is result of practising, C 1%, F52, bandsaw.

And main thing HN Wootz, tree blades,

one finished with kingebony handle, slice moosehorn, own casted bronze with steelwire chips.

More pics

B. Sofa