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I did it!!!!!!!!
I soldered my first brass guard onto a knife!
All the advice and the helpful hints and that new idea to solder from the top really did the trick!
I had a way better fit to the tang this last time. I took my time, and filed very slowly, and even ground off the sides of one of my new files, just like Mr. Fowler talks about in the video.
I got the brass to fit tight about 1/16 (or less) of an inch above the place where I wanted it to fit, then I banged it home and it fit like a glove.
I even went out in the junkyard behind my shop and found some valve springs to push up on the guard as I clamped it into the vice.
I heated from below as Ed Fowler does, but this time I soldered from the top. I ran a thin line of flux (with the needle as I was told to use) and concentrating very, very hard, started to bring the silver solder down to the metal.
However while I was preparing to do this I started to hear a strange sound at the door. I figured it was just the cats trying to get back in my shop. I had kicked all 3 of my cats out of the shop while I soldered my guard this time due to the way they all wanted to 'help' with my last 2 attempts.
Anyway, I was just about to start my first line of solder, when the noise from the door grew to be too much of a distraction, and I glanced over to see what the heck was going on over there?
The door had been pushed open, and was now wedged 1/2 way open.
Wedged? yes, apparently Pumpkins, (yes,the same cat that took a little ride on my buffer the other night right smack into the wall), was now pinned under the ½ open door.
Im not sure how she did it, but the door was on top of her back, and she was starting to panic big time.
I dropped the torch onto my workbench with the silver solder coil, and ran over to the door to help her.
The door was crushing the poor kitty in half!
I tried to pull her back legs, 'no good'. I went around to the other side and reached to grab her front legs to see if I could pull her free.
She bit me
"Well you little Dickens!" (Ok that's not an exact quote)
I told the cat that she got herself into that predicament, and as far as I'm now concerned she could get herself out. With that I returned to my workbench.
I worked as fast with the solder as I could, knowing that the metal must have cooled. As I worked, the screams of my trapped kitten grew and grew, soon it was almost impossible to think there was such noise, But I finished soldering my guard and ended up with a nice thin line showing with no gaps or flaws at all
(Oh the cat got herself free the moment I finished the guard. "Typical".)
I soldered my first brass guard onto a knife!
All the advice and the helpful hints and that new idea to solder from the top really did the trick!
I had a way better fit to the tang this last time. I took my time, and filed very slowly, and even ground off the sides of one of my new files, just like Mr. Fowler talks about in the video.
I got the brass to fit tight about 1/16 (or less) of an inch above the place where I wanted it to fit, then I banged it home and it fit like a glove.
I even went out in the junkyard behind my shop and found some valve springs to push up on the guard as I clamped it into the vice.
I heated from below as Ed Fowler does, but this time I soldered from the top. I ran a thin line of flux (with the needle as I was told to use) and concentrating very, very hard, started to bring the silver solder down to the metal.
However while I was preparing to do this I started to hear a strange sound at the door. I figured it was just the cats trying to get back in my shop. I had kicked all 3 of my cats out of the shop while I soldered my guard this time due to the way they all wanted to 'help' with my last 2 attempts.
Anyway, I was just about to start my first line of solder, when the noise from the door grew to be too much of a distraction, and I glanced over to see what the heck was going on over there?
The door had been pushed open, and was now wedged 1/2 way open.
Wedged? yes, apparently Pumpkins, (yes,the same cat that took a little ride on my buffer the other night right smack into the wall), was now pinned under the ½ open door.
Im not sure how she did it, but the door was on top of her back, and she was starting to panic big time.
I dropped the torch onto my workbench with the silver solder coil, and ran over to the door to help her.
The door was crushing the poor kitty in half!
I tried to pull her back legs, 'no good'. I went around to the other side and reached to grab her front legs to see if I could pull her free.
She bit me
"Well you little Dickens!" (Ok that's not an exact quote)
I told the cat that she got herself into that predicament, and as far as I'm now concerned she could get herself out. With that I returned to my workbench.
I worked as fast with the solder as I could, knowing that the metal must have cooled. As I worked, the screams of my trapped kitten grew and grew, soon it was almost impossible to think there was such noise, But I finished soldering my guard and ended up with a nice thin line showing with no gaps or flaws at all
(Oh the cat got herself free the moment I finished the guard. "Typical".)
