[Regia-NA] Re: Nearly ready made saxe blades / Portable easily made forge / Re: blacksmithing

[rmhowe]

Well, I -thought- that was a private reply.
It looked like one. Silly me. Well, few secrets now.

You should see the pile of Norselist digests I am behind on.

I was on the jeweller's and machinist's newsgroups for a while.
I learned about spam. Of course recently Yahoo has put me back
in the same boat. Dammit.
That was several years ago. Just don't have time for everything.
Maybe one day I'll get the two other lathes running (of 4).
Cleaning 50 years of dried oil/grease is gonna be more fun
than I can stand. It has been and it continues to be.
I'm thinking lots of fat cotton twine soaked in laquer thinner
for the threads on my 1948 little used 9" South Bend.

As a slight matter of note:
I recently bought a couple of knife edge Nicholson files,
made with teeth only on the back edge, what would be the
very back of a saxe knife should you wish to make one.
one was about 11" and one was about 14" with tang.
Now the knife edge was straight and near enough to make
an edge. The backs tapered down with no teeth to about an
inch from the edge end where it was a square cut.
A little grinding and some judicious retempering and you
have a very high carbon knife. There are no teeth on the
flats of the files, and those on the back only run 2/3 the
way to the tip from the shoulder, and they are 1/32" deep.
The finish on the flats is a sanded temper, leaving little
lines, rather like one would see if it had been heavily
stoned. I have no idea how large these things may be in a
catalog. I bought mine from a flea market dealer who got
them possibly as seconds and I can't see anything wrong 
with them. Unfortunately he had no more at the time.
Were I looking for a high carbon blank appropriate,
and thick backed nearly like the originals, I should look
after the Nicholson source. For you Brits, Nicholson is
top of the line over here. Swiss files are similarly revered.

Magnus

"J. K. Siddorn" wrote:
> 
> Hi Magnus,
> 
> This should find a corner in Chronicle next time around. If it;'s OK with
> you, I'll add some parts where voltages/ suppliers are different in the UK.
> These I'll render in a different font.
> 
> You might enjoy this newsgroup and there are other similar ones in the
> States too.
> 
> http://www.newsgate.co.uk/uk/uk.rec.engines.stationary/index.html
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kim Siddorn.