Wheeler Fighting Bowie Project :) ( UPDATED CUTTING & FORGING VIDEOS)

Nick, the editing is quite good. The length of time between scene changes is good for this type of material, and the titling is very good. The content is very informative, and easy to understand. The only thing I can suggest is speed up the cross fades a bit. They seem a bit slow to me. I usually use 3 seconds as a starting point, and adjust from there. I find a slower transition into a title page can work well. I am most impressed that you did not use the "fancy" transitions, which is something most newer editors do. Cross fades, and slides are the way to go. Visual people seem to get this stuff intuitively. :thumbup: :) :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :cool:
 
Regarding color on the hot steel - most digital cameras are somewhat sensitive to IR (heat). You might try finding a IR cut (or IR block) filter, usually a very light magenta in color, to see if that helps any.

Great stuff, Nick!
 
Hey guys. :)

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I thought this was kind of neat to see-
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Willie71 said:
Nick, the editing is quite good. The length of time between scene changes is good for this type of material, and the titling is very good. The content is very informative, and easy to understand. The only thing I can suggest is speed up the cross fades a bit. They seem a bit slow to me. I usually use 3 seconds as a starting point, and adjust from there. I find a slower transition into a title page can work well. I am most impressed that you did not use the "fancy" transitions, which is something most newer editors do. Cross fades, and slides are the way to go. Visual people seem to get this stuff intuitively. :thumbup: :) :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :cool:
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Hmm... almost all of them are 2 seconds. The only one in the last video is 3.... Thanks for the good words! :) Oh, and your block will work just fine Warren. :)
 
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are they 2s each way, or 2s total? Maybe its just me????? I think the videos are great!!!
 
Nick, once you have a collection of videos on different topics, it might be a good idea to offer a DVD/BluRay for sale with compilations. I bought a similar series from a welder (weldingtipsandtricks.com) and it was a lot more convenient than looking everything up through different threads or youtube. I am really impressed with your A/V skills. I used to do a lot of this and know how difficult it is to do well, and how time consuming it is. The only way to make your videos better is to step it up big time and get lighting systems, a second camera to do multiple camera angles, and expensive sound equipment. It just isn't needed. Is there anything you aren't good at? Maybe you are a bad speller? ;))
 
Well, don't I feel dumb now! :o

I got 5 blades from each billet!!! The 5th one from each billet only has the tip forged in, so I forgot to include those in the photo. :foot:
 
Okay, here is what I ended up getting out of each 12" billet of 52100.... 5 rough forged Joe Paranee X2 blades, and one little odd man out. ;) (but it's not that little... the blade is 7" long, 1-5/16" wide, and 1/4" thick). :)

I'm calling it a day for now, and gonna head up to spend some time with my folks. :cool:

Thanks guys! :)

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Quite impressive, IMHO....you're a Forging Machine!

Forging blades that close to the same shape more than once would be the end of my run....
 
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Awesome pics, Nick. Videos as well.
I have a 50# Little Giant and a press and I use my press as much as the hammer for forging.
Its good to see your process.
Great work!

Tad
 
Great job Nick. Bet your pecks and shoulder feel pretty tight. Though your press work makes things a bit easier. I Need to build a new bevel forging die. Keep it up!!
 
Thank you guys!!! :)

Chuck- after seeing my dies sucking the heat out of the blade on the video (it looked worse than I ever realized while actually using them! LOL) I made them shorter, so they take a smaller bite... works much better. I actually made that set of dies just for making billets wider without making them longer... not for beveling blades, but they worked pretty well for putting bevels in, so I just ran with it.

I also made a set of tapered dies that work like a flatter, for smoothing things up after using those lateral drawing/beveling dies. :)
 
Nick, the old noodle has been working overtime thinking of ways to adapt a set of dies for that purpose. I basically came up with the same idea you described. Will have to put something together after Seattle. Now back to the finish table. 2 left before thursday
 
Whewe... ;) :)

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Then, just in case you haven't had enough hammering and you notice a 4" long piece of 1" round W1 laying on the bench... you decide you should see how big of an integral you can forge out of it. :rolleyes: :foot: LOL

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Wow. Excellent Nick. Now that was some work. I'm kind of tired just looking at all of those blades (but still very excited). So we now get to see the integral finished along side these, right? Mike
 
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