Posts Tagged: American made hardware
One Heat
Posted by on Thursday, February 9, 2012 in - leave a comment
• Small stock heated in the forge cools quickly. This short video shows the shaping of an HF-19 ring grip. The cusps have been forged on each end of the stock and the screw holes punched. • The shaping of a grip is quickly done with the proper heat and tools. We start out with two batches of …
Horton Brasses: Ahead Of The Small Trend!
Posted by on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 in - 5 comments
• In The News • Liberty Hardware, a major knob and pull producer, made it into the New York Times a few days ago. Short, to the point, and with a good hook, the story was most likely just a reprint of its own press release. But that’s the way the news machine works. • The gist of the piece …
Using a Power Hammer
Posted by on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 in - leave a comment
While most of the forge work in the shop is done by hand using a hammer and anvil, we do at times use a power hammer. Ours is used to rough out forgings, the work done in traditional shops by the apprentice, where brute force is more important than precise blows. • Diderot Hammer • Power …
A Special Commission: Campaign Furniture Hardware
Posted by on Thursday, July 7, 2011 in - 2 comments
One thing I love about this very odd job blogging about furniture hardware is the opportunity to expand my knowledge base. I cannot tell you how many times I watched Jewel in the Crown, The English Patient and other films with a strong colonial British showing without knowing the proper term for …
Blacksmith’s Riveting, Brazing and Welding, part 2
Posted by on Friday, June 10, 2011 in - leave a comment
In our previous post we talked about how we use mechanical joints, brazing and electrical welding to fasten metal parts together for tools and jigs in the shop. In the work we do for Horton, we use only riveted fastening: we head pins for hinges much like we’d head a rivet, and in making Suffolk …
Gustav Stickley @ the Dallas Museum of Art
Posted by on Monday, March 14, 2011 in - 2 comments
• Running until May 8th, the Dallas Museum of Art is holding a comprehensive retrospective examining the life and work of Gustav Stickley, a name synonymously tied to the American Arts *&Crafts movement. According to the museum's website, *"his exhibition will include over 100 works produced by …
Hardware Comparison
Posted by on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 in - 4 comments
Recently I received my December issue of Popular Woodworking magazine. While looking at it during lunch, one of my woodworking co-workers stopped to look at Glen Huey’s Line & Berry Chest of Drawers that graced the cover. • (Photo provided by PopularWoodworking.com) • After thumbing through …
Quality, Value, and Price
Posted by on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 in - 5 comments
Snow is falling and holiday lights are up on Main Streets across the country. Christmas is approaching and, despite Americans' heightened consciousness regarding the economy, spending will still go on. But as I've seen with my own family's spending, Americans are changing their attitude toward …
How I Install Drawer Hardware
Posted by on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 in - 10 comments
• Recently I was talking projects with a couple of my woodworking buddies. One was working on a chest of drawers *&was complaining about having to measure, mark *&drill each pull for every drawer. I kind of smiled *&told him I have a simple solution shortcut for that. Below is a step by step …