Not such a good day...
Work kept me busy this week so wasn't able to get much time on the forge until yesterday. I did some tinkering around before starting work on a nail heading tool. This is a simple too that allows a smith to form the head on a nail(duh...). Anyway, I ended up making about 10 nails. Only one of those ended up being usable. I need to figure out what I am doing wrong and then practice it a lot. I should be able to form the point of the nail, cut it from the stock and form the head in one heat. Once I become proficient, I should be able to produce one or two nails a minute. It makes me feel sorry for the smiths at Williamsburg. Each smith when I was last there had to make 8000 nails per year.
A chronicle of my attempts to create an early clock using only traditional techniques.
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Gee, that's only about 85-90 hours a year doing nothing but making nails. Can you imagine being a period blacksmith who makes nails for a living? Bleh....
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