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Eveleigh Works

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 499 986 899

Address: Bay 2, 2 Locomotive Street 2015 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.eveleigh.works/

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25.01.2022 One of the many magical things about forging is that if you can work the stock hard enough and fast enough, you can finish the job hotter than it was when it first came out if the furnace. It seems counterintuitive but the immence force of the hammer is used to distort the steel and a byproduct of this transformation is internal friction. With this in mind you could see how delivering large amounts of kinetic energy is transformed into heat energy, so the stock gets hotter the more you work it. This piece is about 40mm square and maybe a metre long.

25.01.2022 When I'm not throwing a hammer another thing I love doing is going fast and turning corners.. Last weekend I took 4 days throwing my '78 911sc through some of the best roads in the hunter with the guys on the Infast1000. I had sooo much fun hanging out with the @infastcompany crew and I'm splitting at the sides to get out with them again.. Huge thanks to all involved in organising the event and to the group as a whole for letting me slow them down

25.01.2022 Part 2- Smiley James This is an outside view of the riveting process which shows the air hold, (driven by James) bracing the rivet. Then there's the gun used to upset the head (driven by Daryl) on the outside and Rob on the oxy torch just giving the last touch of heat where it's needed!

24.01.2022 I have a LOT of hammers. So when we ran a toolmaking workshop a few weeks ago and one of the guys asked if this style of hammer can be made as a cross pein, I thought "shit, maybe, let's see".. This is that.. Rounding hammer with 25mm radius pein, hung on Aussie spotted gum. Steel is 1045... Feels great.. The last shot is all the hammers from that group. Some of the nicest Ive seen and certainly a credit to anyone in their first try at this..

22.01.2022 Tools break.. It's part of the consequence of using them (cue hand waving and convoluted explanation of entropy).. Sometimes though, it feels like if I'm not making tools to do a job, I'm fixing them.. This is the last stage of adjusting a bow swage that had broken off its handle. Not an uncommon event but in this case a rather handsome one!!

19.01.2022 And now for a demonstration of patience.. These are some of the suits of armour on display in the Wallace Collection in London. The collection is filled mostly with Renaissance artworks by nobodies like Rembrandt or Rubens but included an armory where these and thousands of guns, swords, daggers and implements of war are displayed. Truly an incredible private collection.. @ The Wallace Collection

17.01.2022 Here we are, Eveleigh Works, assembled for a rare photo op!! The team is growing and I'm so lucky to work with such a talented and fun group. We have a bunch of interesting and challenging jobs in the pipeline for 2021 and there is no way I could do it without these guys. Can't wait to share the excitement of the forge with you for another year!!

15.01.2022 Getting parts together for the #losttradesfair out at Clarendon. If you're free this Saturday and Sunday come along to see some incredible people work with their hands. I'm so excited to have a yarn with the glass blowers, cooper, whipmaker , woodworkers and many other highly skilled tradespeople. https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=487336

14.01.2022 I take it for granted but there isn't much else like running a big hammer. Here, James and I are working on an industrial job while the shop is getting a new floor around us..

14.01.2022 Friday feels!! *Watch till the end

13.01.2022 Bit of cable Damascus for your Sunday.. I love the radial pattern of this piece made with @corin_at_gameco and @yass_valley_steam_forge It started life as an offcut from the scenic skyway cable car in Katoomba. The cable was 60mm thick and forged down to 40mm to consolidate all the strands and eliminate (most of) the voids. Each little circle is a wire strand fused to it's neighbour. .... . . . . . . . #blacksmith #blacksmithing #forged #wrought #art #tools #fire #makersgonnamake #hammer #handmade #metal #metalwork #project #artisan #metalart #traditional #sculpture See more

13.01.2022 I love punching things under the hammer. It's a bit more difficult and the tooling has to be better but when you get it all right it's very satisfying. This is one of the industrial jobs we do and is actually 2 parts end-to-end, this makes it easier to hold during the forging process. The hot job is supported in a bolster with the correct sized slot milled through it. Then a punch (made of heat and shock resisting tool steel) is lined up by eye, this part is critical because... if you're off centre not only is the forging a waste but you can also damage the punch and die. Finally I force the punch through with single blows. This is super important because if the alignment changes and there is a second blow it can destroy the job, tooling or send either flying out from under the hammer. The lug we punch out is about 30x25x20

11.01.2022 Every time I put something down it seems to evaporate and I spend an age trying to lay my hands on it again, I'm hoping this will help.. We've been taking some time to rebuild the shop because the busier we get and the more staff we have, finding things in an efficient manner becomes central. P.S Being organised is NOT my default setting... . . . . . #blacksmith #blacksmithing #forged #wrought #art #tools #fire #makersgonnamake #hammer #handmade #metal #metalwork #project #artisan #metalart #traditional #sculpture #organised #toolboard #workshop

10.01.2022 How did you spend your weekend? These guys spent 2 days learning traditional blacksmithing. Anvil forging, striking, hot riveting, bending and tonnes more.. this is one of the jobs from this weekend!!

09.01.2022 Swipe to the end to see the full repair. Mark is rooster tailing his way to a brilliant anvil makeover. This giant 600lb anvil was in pretty bad shape, it had had the top of it's horn cut flat, or more accurately, a pretty rough approximation of flat. It's hard to tell if it was for a purpose that was abandoned half way through or a rogue apprentice getting his vandalism on but either way it deserved a fix. Firstly we ground back the uneven, flame cut surface to bare metal. T...hen Mark layed down a layer of stainless steel electrode to help bond the repair, special care was taken along the outer edges to try and stop any of the repair lifting, peeling or cracking. This is a common approach when joining dissimilar alloys or welding high alloy. To build up the bulk of the horn, we switched to the big the 3 phase mig. After a mile of wire and bucket of sweat we had enough material to start the shaping, starting with a stone wheel and finished with a flap disk (120 grit I think). Very happy with the result and glad to know we could add to the life of another old relic.

08.01.2022 Another shot from Ybbsitz. The blacksmith here is applying a time honoured coat of wax to hot steel. It acts as a protective layer and also gives it a rich, deep grey colour. One of my favourite finishes!!

07.01.2022 This was a pretty special thing... For all the glory of steam, it was a very cool thing to drive this beam hammer that predates the industrial revolution by several hundreds of years. Its main jobs were breaking down raw bar stock and forging tools and agricultural implements. It's now used by Sepp at Ebyl Hammer in Ybbsitz Austria for creative ironwork. More photos of the workshop to follow...

07.01.2022 One of the most fundamental techniques in blacksmithing is drawing a taper. So many jobs require this change in cross section and it follows the same process whether you're at the anvil or under a big hammer or press. Piers is on his way to making a round taper point but to ensure the optimum grain structure in the material he must work it down as a square taper, take the corners off to form an octagon, then finally round it up. This stock is 40mm round, 1045

06.01.2022 When you really want to keep things together, use a rivet. This real cute cast iron wheel is being held in place with a 20mm axle that we peined into place. I've gone over the merits of this kind of traditional joinery before but suffice to say, not only will this last a lifetime, it just looks great.. .... . . . . . . . #blacksmith #blacksmithing #forged #wrought #art #tools #fire #makersgonnamake #hammer #handmade #metal #metalwork #project #artisan #metalart #traditional #sculpture #ladder #architectural #interiordesign

04.01.2022 Day 2 of the lost trades fair is kicking off. Its going to be huge!!

04.01.2022 I love industrial treasures.. Like this, a cast iron wheeled trolley for pulling hot billets around the shop between processes. The handle is 40 mm thick solid bar around 2.5m long. We use it for transfering large lumps of hot steel from the furnace to the hammers for forging. Very likely made at Eveleigh, I love looking at how it was constructed and drawing inspiration from its design. .... . . . #blacksmith #blacksmithing #forged #wrought #art #tools #fire #hammer #handmade #metal #metalwork #project #artisan #metalart #traditional #sculpture #industrial See more

03.01.2022 Talk about anvil envy... This is the base to a monster power hammer sitting at the open air museum in Coalbrookdale. One thing I thought was really cool is the way the top and bottom castings are pinned together and located by massive bridle pieces. These would have been heated, forced on and the contraction upon cooling would lock the whole thing solid. (Blacksmith for scale)

03.01.2022 The gym, pfft, who needs it! James is bending up some tool hooks for the new racks we made. We have so many tools from the railway days here and many of them were tucked away behind machines, under furnaces and sneaked away in hidey holes.. We have spent a tonnes of time and effort to bring them all out so they are easy to find and draw inspiration from.... . . . . #blacksmith #blacksmithing #forged #wrought #art #tools #fire #makersgonnamake #hammer #handmade #metal #metalwork #project #artisan #metalart #traditional #sculpture #toolrack

03.01.2022 I have heard so many stories from the old workers at Eveleigh about the tremendous barrage of noise and general unpleasantness that would emanate from bays 3 and 4 when they were riveting together locomotive boilers. So naturally, when a mate asked if we'd help him on a similar project, James and I leapt at the chance.. So here is a video of me, laying on my back, 7 feet deep in the boiler of a traction engine which is being restored by Southern Steam Services. A 1000 degree ...C rivet gets passed in, lighting up the dark space. The rivet is pushed through and locked in with an air hold up, this braces the rivet from the inside while it is headed from the outside. Then comes the noise... The video compresses the sound so it doesn't convey just how raucous the job is. I was wearing ear buds and ear muffs and it was still noisy. The whole boiler rings and resonates with the vibration of the rivet gun, you're literally hearing the sound through your bones.. Rivets are still used in industry today on ships, aircraft, bridges and high pressure, high stress environments for a number of reasons: - Hot rivets produce a very tight, firm fastening due to the contraction of the rivet as it cools, pulling in and locking the plates together. - Rivets are a mechanical fastener like a bolt but because both heads are solid they don't carry the risk of loosening up like bolts with vibration or over many duty cycles. - Holes for rivets are round so there is no place for stress to concentrate which can lead to tearing and failure under load. This is important for boilers because they expand and contract as they are heated and cooled which can lead to fatigue and failure. Lookup the the De Havilland Comet, the first commercial airliner, as an example of how things can go wrong.. - Welding is popular and convenient but the process can lead to embrittlement along the weld seam which can lead to failure in high stress environments. Big thanks to Rob at Southern Steam Services for having us, hope you've enjoyed my riveting post..

02.01.2022 Earlier this year I was fortunate to meet and collaborate with Dave, a sculpture teacher at the National Arts School. In the few months he was at Eveleigh Works he turned close to 6 tonnes of steel into a beautiful sculptural work for Bondi's Sculptures by the Sea. I loved working with Dave, he's super talented, thoughtful, down to earth and has my taste in music so like a lot of people I get to work with, he has become a good friend as well!! Here he is talking about the art...work and his time in the workshop https://youtu.be/PCFKCPEmeHM?t=137

02.01.2022 Scale!!! The bane of my existence.. It's the oxide layer that builds up on the surface of the steel while it's being heated through. It is an oxidation reaction and like with many chemical reactions, the hotter the temperature the faster it forms and thicker it builds up.. This steel is 30mm thick for reference..