Score!!! They've arrived...

scottickes

scottickes

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:) If you remember the "Will this last a lifetime?" thread, you'll remember that I promised to post pictures when they arrived. Well, they arrived today. I have 232 rollers anywhere from 1/2" diameter up to 2-1/2" diameter. There are 9 races from small to large. You'll count 7 races in the pictures, because I forgot to get two smaller ones in the pile that were sitting over to the side.

I think all this 52100 should last a while. :D

Scott (Ickie) Ickes
 
Man, that is a lot of cash sitting there, just as "scrap steel"! Darn sure a lot of knives... now get to work :)
 
Dang. Impressive set of pics bro! Really nice.
 
More metal than a Sabbath concert.

Sorry guys, that came to me in a flash of brilliance and/or idiocy and I just had to share... :D
 
dang........some of those races look big enough that you could cut them crosswise and forge blades out of those pieces:eek: You are in the same boat as I am with my W2 stash. We both have enough steel for at least five years.......assuming we double or triple out annual output of knives:D
 
Scott

Nice bundle

You had fun sorting, stacking and counting didn't you ?

like a kid at Christmas with a new toy...:)


Steve
 
know what you mean I have at leat a 100 big nichols files. I packed home another 6 just last friday.
 
ib2v4u said:
know what you mean I have at leat a 100 big nichols files. I packed home another 6 just last friday.
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Shoot....I have a whole bunch of those too! I should have gotten them out and put them with the rollers. Daggone it!

I forged out a knife today from one of the smaller spherical rollers. No pictures yet, sorry. It's in the vermiculite annealing right now. I even made a guillotine fuller today too. It's pictured in another thread.

I like forging the files down. There already close to being a knife shape, what with the build in tang!
 
I received a collection of bearings a couple of years back. I never used any of the races. The bearings themselves are such a handy shape and size you tend to get, spoiled. About twenty minutes and you can forge them into a nice blade. I keep the sizes separated, you learn to relate certain size bearings to certain size knives. Pick up a couple of hunters and a bowie to forge, in one hand, weld them to a piece of rebar and presto, you've made some knives!

Fred

Add four hours, to the 20 minutes, if you are forging by hand.
 
Fred.Rowe said:
I received a collection of bearings a couple of years back. I never used any of the races. The bearings themselves are such a handy shape and size you tend to get, spoiled. About twenty minutes and you can forge them into a nice blade. I keep the sizes separated, you learn to relate certain size bearings to certain size knives. Pick up a couple of hunters and a bowie to forge, in one hand, weld them to a piece of rebar and presto, you've made some knives!

Fred

Add four hours, to the 20 minutes, if you are forging by hand.
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Since I'm just starting to forge, I'm just now learning all of this. I've now got all of the rollers in my shop cabinet. I have a 3' wide by 8' tall cabinet that is 1' deep. It's divided into 70 little cubbyholes that are 5" X 5" square by 1' deep. It's wear I keep all my handle material and rollers stored. I'm just now learning what size blades each roller will make. I'm experimenting and playing. I forged a 1" long X 3/4" roller today into a 4-1/2" hunter. I'm forging two or three more tomorrow. Right now, I'm just heating and beating and learning. Reading about this and talking about this only goes so far. Until I forge a few hundred of them, I'll still be guessing at what I'm capable of. Right now, I'm just trying to gain experience. It is nice to have all of this material to play with though.

p.s.
I'm doing it all by hand!
 
scottickes said:
Since I'm just starting to forge, I'm just now learning all of this. I've now got all of the rollers in my shop cabinet. I have a 3' wide by 8' tall cabinet that is 1' deep. It's divided into 70 little cubbyholes that are 5" X 5" square by 1' deep. It's wear I keep all my handle material and rollers stored. I'm just now learning what size blades each roller will make. I'm experimenting and playing. I forged a 1" long X 3/4" roller today into a 4-1/2" hunter. I'm forging two or three more tomorrow. Right now, I'm just heating and beating and learning. Reading about this and talking about this only goes so far. Until I forge a few hundred of them, I'll still be guessing at what I'm capable of. Right now, I'm just trying to gain experience. It is nice to have all of this material to play with though.

p.s.
I'm doing it all by hand!
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You'll have arms like Popeye before you finish. Enjoy, Fred
 
Fred.Rowe said:
You'll have arms like Popeye before you finish. Enjoy, Fred
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I know what you mean. I've been at it all day yesterday and today. My forearm is a little tight, but my hand is to the point that I have trouble keeping a grip on the hammer.

A friend was over today. He had taken a 3/4" ball a few weeks ago and had worked it out into a 1/2" X 1/2" bar. Today he worked that bar into a knife. It's really turning out quite good. It's going to be like a long kitchen/camp knife. He's learning and having fun. That's what it's all about, isn't it? The next time he comes over, he's going to forge the ricasso and draw out the tang.
 
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