Am I a Mean Uncle??

[Tin Falcon]

In days of old parents used to threaten there kids and grand kids with the gift of coal for Christmas.
My 14 year old nephew has been interested in blacksmithing for the last couple of years.
I just picked up a 50# bag of blacksmiths coal for him for a Christmas present. Cool Huuh??

Tin

 

[Nerdz]

Im jealous, I wanted coal at some point to hope I'd find a diamond, or some cool looking mineral when I was bad. Never happened.

 

[Sshire]

“Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

 

[gus]

In days of old parents used to threaten there kids and grand kids with the gift of coal for Christmas.
My 14 year old nephew has been interested in blacksmithing for the last couple of years.
I just picked up a 50# bag of blacksmiths coal for him for a Christmas present. Cool Huuh??

Tin

Times have changed. This bag of coal will be very timely and useful.


You are a man of mystery. Blacksmithing is almost a black art. They harden and temper axes in seconds.We don't get to see the temper colours.
They complete a butt joint in minutes.

The smithy gets covered up with smoke and dust and the shop too.
Just recalling the blacksmith shop next door. This master can harden and temper an axe in seconds. He did promised to teach me basis I power his one/two menpower bellows.Too bad two years later he died of old age.
There are now no more smithies left in Singapore.


Happy Smithing!!!! Touch nothing in the smothy's with bare hands.
Please post your nephew's first job.

 

[Herbiev]

What size anvil is Santa gonna drop down the chimney :hDe:

 

[MachineTom]

When I lived in PA, all you had to do was walk along a bumpy road , all the coal you wanted just lying around.

 

[Tin Falcon]

Fuel to fire the imagination perhaps.

Actually my nephew and I attended a blacksmith class together at The rough and tumble museum a couple years ago so he has completed his first project.


Strike while the iron is hot! Make the most of every heat and every blow of the hammer.
Life is short so make the best of it seize every opportunity to learn. For tomorrow may never come.


Tin

 

[gus]

Fuel to fire the imagination perhaps.

Actually my nephew and I attended a blacksmith class together at The rough and tumble museum a couple years ago so he has completed his first project.


Strike while the iron is hot! Make the most of every heat and every blow of the hammer.
Life is short so make the best of it seize every opportunity to learn. For tomorrow may never come.


Tin

Hi Tin,
Will be very hilarious,fun and entertaining.
My very own experience at Trade School BlackSmiting Shop.
1.Was so happy forging my very first chisel which was quite a beauty after
grinding and filing to profile and shape.
Was shown how to heat up to chilly red and quench and withdraw to watch
the temper colours. Thought I got everything right. After successfully
cutting a few steel chips,chisel broken into two pieces.:hDe::hDe:
Reason. Hardened beyond the tip,overhardened and insufficient temper.
2.My hot forged butt-joint welding of 3/4" steel bar snapped off. :wall:

3. Twenty odd years later hardening and tempering came back to haunt
me. Required a very odd size punch/die to comlete a job.Bought books to
read up. Best info came from Chapter 3 of
Tubal Cain's "Hardening,Tempering & Heat Treatment".

1986 Spent entire off day in the forge shop of Shanghai Compressor Plant,China. Hand forging and drop-forging of small parts to very big parts.
Forging pipe flanges was another eye-opener.

Hi Tin, Happy Smithing and Merry Christmas.

P.S. Touch nothing with bare hands!!!!!. Foundry Coke is best to prevent fouling. Charcoal will do but won't last long burning like coke.

 

[Tin Falcon]

Well Gus when I showed up for Blacksmith class with gloves I was told to put them away. The reason is next to the forge is a bucket for quenching.
and if the gloves get wet and one grabs hot metal your hand gets steamed very fast. By all means never pick up a hot piece that gets dropped . treat all metal as it is is hot unless known and proven different.
tin

 

[kd0afk]

In Germany on ST Nicolas day getting coal is a good thing, it's switches you don't want.

 

[stevehuckss396]

In days of old parents used to threaten there kids and grand kids with the gift of coal for Christmas.
My 14 year old nephew has been interested in blacksmithing for the last couple of years.
I just picked up a 50# bag of blacksmiths coal for him for a Christmas present. Cool Huuh??

Tin

What's wrong with that. Every year I get my mom 2 bags of dirt. And one year we got her a rock.

 

[Tin Falcon]

And what wife or GF would not thank you for a shiny carbon rock.
Almost the same thing or not.
Tin