18 Minutes of metalworking artistry

[Paul Alciatore]

Just be sure you don't find more eggs than you hid. That happened to us one year. My wife hid two dozen eggs and the kids found 25. It took a bit of searching to find the one that was a year old. And that was in our den, not outside.

Watched the video (which seemed vaguely familiar) and read all the posts before it occurred to me that I was the one who posted this video two years ago. I'm getting very old. This weekend I plan on hiding my own Easter eggs.

[mattthemuppet]

This weekend I plan on hiding my own Easter eggs.

that made me laugh

[J Tiers]

Did he really hit the punch with a flatter? It went by so fast I didn't get a good look at it even going back and trying to stop it at the right point. But it looked like one.

[CalM]

OT from the artistry

I have spent some time with a machete in hand, and find the tool very flexible and effective. I can not see an application for the Bowie knife that is not met with the machete. Now a K-Bar in hand is a different issue.

[Lee Cordochorea]

Thanks for the link. Yes I'm aware of the various cold blueing and blackening products available, I have some myself.
What I was after was more along the lines of the soft gray effect that the Bernax 540 left on the steel shown in the video.

Guggle really sucks these days, but I was able to find a model railroader blog in Dutch... Guggle's translation describes thusly:

BERNAX 540 from VéDé.
I make the head of the rails dark with a metal stain, first a black-blue conductive oxide is formed.
When rubbed in, the color becomes brownish-black.
The effect is similar to wood stain: it is somewhat transparent, you can see the structure of the metal through it.

It is a toxic, blue liquid that is also used, among other things, to give weapons a dark color, but artists also use it to color their metal objects and you can also 'black' wheels with them.

...matches the description of dilute nitric acid

[754]

I think he is using a knife grinder, not a regular surface grinder. Look at travel length vs width.
I think it was made to hold a long blade or blades in a fixture at an angle like planer blades. Or peeler knifes for making plywood.

If the head is tiltable, be very good for knife work..

[754]

It looks a lot like a Hanchett 38 knife grinder..