{"id":1773,"date":"2011-05-18T19:39:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T10:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-05-18\/1773"},"modified":"2011-05-18T19:39:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T10:39:13","slug":"old-and-odd-tools-at-the-smithy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-05-18\/1773","title":{"rendered":"Old and Odd Tools at the Smithy"},"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>250 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nConditioning a Grinding<\/span> Wheel<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>80 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBusiness End<\/span>\n( a bit<\/span> fuzzy here, but it was really dark, so it's not too bad for 1\/80 sec at 125mm )<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

While in Pierre Nadeau's smithy<\/a> that I wrote<\/span> about yesterday, I noticed<\/span> this odd-looking tool lying around, and like many of the odd-looking things lying around the 100-year-old workshop, I had no<\/span> clue what it was (unlike the majority who answered the\n“What am I?” quiz<\/a> correctly the other day).<\/p>\n\n

When I asked Pierre about it, he demonstrated that it conditions a grinding<\/span>\nwheel used for sharpening knives and the like. I don't<\/span> think he uses it\nwhen he makes swords, but he also makes various tools on order, so I'm sure\nhis grinding wheel gets a lot<\/span> of use.<\/p>\n\n

There are actually a couple of different grinding wheels in the small space... here's another one whose pedestal has developed quite a patina<\/span>\nof grinding-wheel dust over the years...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1000 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\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>\n<\/div>\n\n

Along the same lines, in the 1960s the workshop was fitted with various\nmechanical tools all run from a single<\/span> electric engine. Because the engine\nwas the most expensive part, a series<\/span> of pullies and wheels were used to\ndistribute the energy out to multiple tools, such as the big pounder\nthinging<\/a> seen yesterday, which I think<\/span> is the only thing still hooked up to it.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nSource of Power<\/span>\nprecariously distributed via pully\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>100 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 1800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nIn Action<\/span>\njust waiting to take off a limb or two of anyone not paying due attention\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While in Pierre Nadeau's smithy that I wrote about yesterday, I noticed this odd-looking tool lying around, and like many of the odd-looking things lying around the 100-year-old workshop, I had no clue what it was (unlike the majority who answered the \"What am I?\" quiz correctly the other day).<\/p>

When I asked Pierre about it, he demonstrated that it conditions a grinding wheel used for sharpening knives and the like. I don't think he uses it when he makes swords, but he also makes various tools on order, so I'm sure his grinding wheel gets a lot of use.<\/p> [...]","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\/1773"}],"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=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}