#### Welcome! Here's part two to my trip to go visit a friend where I melted and repoured my first silver. It was my first real time away from Oslo since being here in Norway and it was a great few days away.
Check out the actual pouring post here [part one](https://steemit.com/freedom/@movingman/first-pour-a-trip-to-see-a-friend-day-1-hamar-norway)
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We were woken by the neighbor who has a farm out the back of my friends cabin. He came with beer and so at 10 am we started to drink. I remembered that we had from the night before, 5 pork fillets and 3 rack of ribs and lots of cooked chickens, and now in the sunshine it was the time to make a fire and cook it all. By the time the fire was burnt down to embers ready for cooking on, we were feeling the few beers on an empty stomach and was having a great laugh about life.  Valhall!
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We wern't sure what we were going to do this day, we had ran out of charcoal so the main goal for the day was to make charcoal and I wanted to maybe make something from metal but wasn't sure what after hearing how long the processes are to make a small knife for example. Metals not really my thing, Im a wood kinda guy and ended up deciding that I would like a stamp to stamp silver pours with in the future.
 
After eating like kings as usual from the waste of society I needed a siesta before taking action to go make charcoal there was no way a stomach full of meat and beer was going to work out well. We ended up all having a nap , well trying to anyway but it seemed the world and his mate wanted to come and knock on the cabin door and come in to say Hi. No siesta and a live Agra-Yoga show in between, it was time to go to the workshop. 
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### The Making of The Stamp
 
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Here's when it was marked out and ready to cut.
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<div class="pull-left">https://s31.postimg.cc/v9g3bpy4r/not_mirror_stamp.jpg</div>It was now time to draw around the end of the proposed stamp onto paper and then draw the design into the shape. This would then be cut out and stuck on with poxy glue onto the end of the metal stamp as a template like the picture here. You see how it will look *ON* metal, which means I was stoned and stuck it on the wrong way! but anyway for the photo it was perfect. Had to redo it and stick it on mirror-side up!
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I used the angle-grinder to take off the "bulk" around the shape, but had to leave some to file off. Then it was to the part of full concentration.. Tools ready on the bench which a wide variety of files to use, and the mighty Dremel. I had only seen these advertised on cheesy 24hour TV commercials years ago back in "House-Life" when most likely when they were new, and because of this I thought they would be shit, but these things are amazing! Anyway here's some snaps of how it went!

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##### We couldn't work out how to attach the thinnest metal blade on the Dremel, and I couldn't get the 2 M's as planned with a hacksaw blade, so it turned magically into 1 M!

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## After this stage it was ready for a quick sand and then into the forge. 

<div class="pull-left">https://s31.postimg.cc/udjlwfgsb/repair_wheel.jpg</div> The band for the wheel that pumped air into the forge would come off if you spun it the wrong way, and in the end it was time for a new one. They last a good few weeks usually and are just made from Duck Tape lol. My friend was then explaining to me about metal in great detail , all of which just seemed to bounce of my stoned brain and got confusing. What I did manage to grasp and learn (OK , just barely grasp) was the colour's of oxidization when the metal has started to cool down. Maybe you have seen like this before these band of colour's on something steel that has been forged. Here's something just from google images which explains what I mean..
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So when we took it out of the fire, it needed a rub with a metal brush to take of any old rust. Then it was place in a vice to see the colour's of the cooling metal. Its cool to watch, the colour's rise up slowly as it cools, so as we heated the tip last it was going the oppersite direction of the diagram there *above*. When the golden yellow colour was showing on the head of the stamp , it was time to take it and cool it. Water dosn't work as good as oil to cool hot metal down, and this is it being cooled in this photo. If you don't cool it at the right temperature then the steel isn't hardend properly.
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Here's a photo I just took now to show the colour's on the stamp.

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## So a little lesson about forging for us all! 
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### Test On Clay..
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<center>## Time to make charcoal!</center>
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We had used the last of the charcoal and then we started to go look for a *dead* standing tree in the forest. Dead standing tress are the best for burning as the are dry from not laying down. We got a few other people and the *Beast* and it was her time to shine. We went out the back of the workshop and wasn't long before the snow was to deep for the tractor. oh and then my friend decided to go up the valley side as the snow wasn't so thick, and well..

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<div class="pull-left">https://s31.postimg.cc/acox4hjdn/P1030345.jpg</div> After all that meat and beer , we walked of and left it. Ok fuck that- we found scrap wood and had a tidy up at the same time in the workshop, turned out there was plenty of dry wood around. 

>I really wish I could upload videos but I just cant , this whole trip would have been more exiting for the reader to have seen some video clips in between! But hey, just another sacrifice to have *no contract* for the internet :)

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### The Self Burning Rocket Burner

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This is made so that the gas from the wood that is placed inside to make the charcoal from, collects and exits out down a tube which goes into the part where the wood is first fed into and creates a contact gas feed into the flames.
Its big! First thing was to collect wood from around the workshop
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Then pack it all in as tightly together as possible into the huge barrel. We started lighting it whilst packing it and ended up getting very smoked out! 

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*Look at that little inferno!* The sound was so nice also, like a humming heard from afar..
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#### I don't have any pictures of the finished charcoal &#128532; and will wrap it up there, who knows there might be some random video uploads from me in the future of all this action!

Thanks For Reading, I Hope That By Sharing The Alternative Choice Of Lifestyle (that once was normal not so long ago, so what lifestyle is infact the alternative one?!) Others Will See How It Works Out And That Its BEAUTIFUL To BE FREE FROM THE SYSTEM!!

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