| Oh, dear computer... |
Oct. 6th, 2009 |
 I resent computers. (a friend told me I
shouldn't say "I hate" so freely). As a matter of fact, I litteraly
spend hours everyday: e-mail, Web site update, and then this kinda
blog... The tool is so vertsatile and efficient, I can't get
away without it. But there's no doubt, I don't like having to spend
hours staring at an illuminating panel with only my
hands slightly moving about.
For hours.
No!
This is all because I just
completed a long and overdue clean-up of Soulsmithing and its
file organizations on the server. I successfully deleted half of the
files without changing the site! Just a load of html
reprogramming. Arrgh!
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I did wrap three tool
handles: my newly made teko (the bar onto which is weld the steel when
performing tanren), the kiri-tagane mentioned yesterday (how ugly!), and
a humble scraper.
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| First post: Almost a blog... |
Oct. 5th, 2009 |
 Kinda blog, because it's just another
web page, but its format reminds us...
In here I'm hoping to share thoughts and anecdotes on what is
happening: about things that are not worthy of an article, but still
interesting enough to be shared and, hopefully, enjoyed.
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Today was a great day at the forge:
great because everything I tried
worked. That's rare. I successfully made blanks for
two bō-shuriken. The picture shows them as is: no filing, just
hammering. I'm hoping to make them with yari-like points, never seen
this, so don't know how it'll look!
Then I forged one octogonal bar: a
blank that should provide enough for two or three sun-tetsu,
an Edo period self-defence weapon.
I improved my ugly kiri-tagane (the tool
used
for cutting steel during tanren, the forge-folding process), and even
tuned-up the power hammer's clutch. The beast is dated 1966, after all. |
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