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Dadoo

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276 days ago

Topic tags/keywords: lathe tools homemade

In reference to this post: http://lumberjocks.com/topics/559 I remember recently watching a woodworking show called The Woodwrights Shop, on PBS. In this particular show this host uses only non-electric tools…everything’s antique and done the way our forefathers did it. It’s really cool and worth watching.

So on this particular show, he was creating a thread cutter and he used an old discarded file for the blade. The only problem with files is that they are extremely hard and impossible to cut or “file” an edge to. (Except for Chinese files) (lol!) So what he did was to put the tip into a makeshift brick oven that was heated with a torch. You bring the file tip to a “redhot” state and then let it cool…slowly. This changes the molecular pattern in the metal making it maleable. Now you can easily “file” or grind out the edge shape of the particular tool you want.

Next, you reheat the tool edge to a redhot state again and this time, quench it quickly in ice cold water. This returns the steel to it’s original hardness. Now all that’s left is to sharpen the edge.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

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jpw1995

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276 days ago

In regard to The Woodwrights Shop… I think I remember Marc S. (a.k.a. The Woodwhisperer) mentioning that the old episodes of The Woodwrights Shop are available for viewing on the internet now.

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

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Lee A. Jesberger

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276 days ago

Good info, well written.

Thanks.

Lee

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Karson

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276 days ago

I picked up some fire brick a few years ago. It was a brick MFG plant and I went in to purchase some new fire brick. Instead he took some bricks out of the side of his brick kiln and gave them to me. He said they were going to reline it. I don’t know what they are made out of but they are very light and you can put a torch on them and they turn glowing red but the brick beside it is still cool. I use them when I need to clamp something when I need to weld. But I could probably make a small pocket of 3-4 of them and make a mini – forge to try what you are stating.

Thanks.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

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Dick Cain

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275 days ago

If we keep at this long enough, we’ll calling ourselves Smithyjocks. ;)

-- Dick Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

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