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J. Doyle said:
Awe.....Bing's cheating here. He's using his fancy new mill. Come on Bing.....show them the old school way with just the drill press. :D ;)

For those that don't know...Bing made some of the smoothest flippers around before he got his mill, using just his old drill press. He's all about clean precise work.

I love this pattern Lorien. You've got a real talent for drawing and design and also finding makers that fit those designs. This is win/win here.

Can't wait to see this brought to life Bing. Looking great so far. :thumbup:
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John now I get to use both. "I don't really know how I did with out the mill"

Bing
 
My buddy Bing!! Show em how it's done! The flippers that Bing is producing have a smoothness and a snap that have to felt in hand to be fully appreciated.

L
Your design and drawing skills are truly impressive. Love to study your drawings and all the little details you put in em'. Thanks for do this WIP.
 
Being a forge hound, Bing understandably MUST make the material for the blade himself:)

What we are going to end up with here, according to Bing is "a W’s pattern Damascus with a few of my added stuff for fun".

For the constituents of the damascus, Bing will be using 15N20 and 1095;




Here, the surface ground material is tacked and ready for welding;




Fire in the hole! The prebillet is coming up to temperature;




This is the initial weld;




Here, Bing is drawing out the billet with his power hammer;





If I have time later today, I'll add a few more pictures. If not, see you on Monday!
 
Mike, thank you so much for the nice compliment! I'm really looking forward to our project as well :)
 
Thanks everyone for following along. I just want to throw a pitch out to Mike Q thanks for teaching me about dry welding I haven't used flux in over a year now in my forge welding Damascus. It is working for cleaner welds at least in my shop. And I don't have all the mess. I'm not saying flux is bad. It is just working better for me without.

Thanks
Bing
 
Interesting Bing. You have some serious tools in your shop. I can't wait to see the results.

No flux on the initial stack? Is that possible because of the surface ground tight fitting steels and reduced fire? What temp do you tack squeeze?
 
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Looks very sexy. I was beside Bing at blade this year and was very impressed with his folders. No flux is definitely the way to go for super clean steel. I look forward to see the final product.
 
Bruce Bump said:
Interesting Bing. You have some serious tools in your shop. I can't wait to see the results.

No flux on the initial stack? Is that possible because of the surface ground tight fitting steels and reduced fire? What temp do you tack squeeze?
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Bruce, yes on the initial stack, a rich fire little extra soak time at welding heat. Then the first squeeze is a light one then right back into the forge. Second squeeze I take little bites about 1/8" for the full length. Then right back in the forge. I found that taking smaller squeezes seems to work better for me. Before I turn to start doing the W's. I take my big right angle grinder. grind off anything that don't look like its welded. Then it ready to start drawing out the W's.

we never seem to have too many tools LOL


EScott


Looks very sexy. I was beside Bing at blade this year and was very impressed with his folders. No flux is definitely the way to go for super clean steel. I look forward to see the final product.
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Thanks Scott, looking forward to next blade show.

Bing
 
All this talk about surface grinding, but no pictures!

Well, here ya go!




I remember talking with Mike Quesenberry some time ago about fluxless welds and the requirement for starting with super clean, perfectly flat materials. It didn't really register with me all that much, since I don't do this kind of work (yet). But it did make a lot of sense to me intuitively. It appears that the 'fluxless weld' is gaining adherents, and no doubt the availability of things like surface grinders really does make this technique far more accessible to more bladesmiths.




Here we have a .070" plate of 15N20 going against the W’s pattern for an added affect, which will be shown later on;




This is the first restack. There will be one more before squaring and doing the 4-way;




The billet has been drawn out and is now ready to be cut to get started on the 4-way;




More to come later in the day...
 
The Ws and 15N20 plate composite billet has been cut into 4 pieces;




Again, with the surface grinding- all 4 pieces are clean and ready to be welded together, (I assume by MIG) prior to being welded together :)




Welded, and ready for the forge weld;




Pressed on a bias;




The 4-wayed Ws/15N20 billet has been drawn out, and is ready to be cut into tiles;




More coming tomorrow morning. In the next batch of pictures, you will get to see the etched material. Prepare yourself!
 
Good morning, folks! Back at er.

The 15N20/Ws/4-way billet has been cut into tiles;




which are then flipped;




and TIG welded into another stack. There is no filler involved here, as Bing didn't want to interrupt the pattern he's worked so hard to build. I should also note here, that in one of the last posts I assumed the welding was done via MIG. I've only now discovered that Bing TIG welds his stacks, which is more difficult but also leaves a nice clean bead.




The billet's been reduced, and the blade has been cut into its rough profile. Obviously, the billet is far larger than what this project calls for, so expect to see this damascus in future Bing projects.




...and I'm going to tease you guys for the rest of the day before I post up the post-etched blade. Sorry, but I want to start page 3 with that picture :)
 
So we just need to post a few post with ooooh and ahhh to get to post 40? Look forward to seeing the etch.
 
Cool project and WIP, Lorien.
I like everything I've seen Bing do, nice designs well crafted.
Also looking forward to checking out the pattern.

Doug
 
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