{"id":1768,"date":"2011-05-10T22:56:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-05-10\/1768"},"modified":"2011-05-10T22:57:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T13:57:05","slug":"a-cold-forging-metal-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-05-10\/1768","title":{"rendered":"A Little Cold-Forging Metal Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>800 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nCold<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

This weekend I had great adventure in a visit<\/span> to a Japanese<\/span> swordsmith,\nabout which I'll write soon. One side event<\/span> was that the swordsmith, who\nnormally works with 1,000-degree metals, was also visited at the same time\nby a cold<\/span>-forging metal smith, and the two traded notes and techniques\nof their vaguely-related crafts.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 720 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nPewter Blanks<\/span>\nabout the diameter of a US quarter\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 1000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nProgress So Far<\/span>\nafter a lot of hammering\n<\/div>\n\n

The swordsmith is used to hammering, but not to touching what he's hammering with his bare hands (because it's normally glowing red hot).<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 1800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nSmoothing Some Ridges<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 450 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nTaking a Break<\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

An hour and a half later....<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 1400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nRough Shaping Begins<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nWorking the Edge<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 2000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nInspection by the Master<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n“Heh, This is Harder Than it Looks”<\/span>\n( I don't<\/span> recall what he was really saying, but that's what I see<\/span> in his smile )<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 2800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nA Little<\/span> More Instruction<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 1400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nMore-Refined Shaping?<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

This is, of course, the answer to the “What am I?” Quiz that will\nstump you<\/a> from the other day.<\/p>\n\n

Most of the products that the metalworker makes would not fit directly\ninto any of these curves, so I'm not 100% sure on what they're for, other\nthan some level of shaping. It's interesting<\/span> to note that they're\nnot<\/i> used for the basic shape, but rather, that's done by many light\ntaps at the edge of the wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend I had great adventure in a visit to a Japanese swordsmith, about which I'll write soon. One side event was that the swordsmith, who normally works with 1,000-degree metals, was also visited at the same time by a cold-forging metal smith, and the two traded notes and techniques of their vaguely-related crafts.<\/p>

The swordsmith is used to hammering, but not to touching what he's hammering with his bare hands (because it's normally glowing red hot).<\/p>

An hour and a half later....<\/p>

This is, of course, the answer to the \"What am I?\" Quiz that will stump you from [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}