{"id":116,"date":"2011-02-24T23:13:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T05:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/?p=116"},"modified":"2011-02-25T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T07:38:07","slug":"thing-24-tongs-mostly-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/2011\/02\/24\/thing-24-tongs-mostly-done\/","title":{"rendered":"thing 24: tongs (mostly done)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"thing 24: tongs close up by starfive, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/starfive\/5475164561\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5139\/5475164561_4443d4e341_z.jpg\" alt=\"thing 24: tongs close up\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"DSC_0010 by starfive, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/starfive\/5475762266\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5260\/5475762266_f0bcbedae0_z.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0010\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"IMG_0231 by starfive, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/starfive\/5475162845\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5019\/5475162845_6b74a36c1d_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0231\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nin my blacksmithing class tonight, we started making tongs. we started with 2 steel bars (like the one in the last photo above) that were 11&#8243; long x 3\/4&#8243; wide x 1\/4&#8243; thick. i heated and hammered them into the right shape and are now almost 15&#8243; long. i used the hole punch i made last week to punch the hole where a rivet will hold the two pieces together. our instructor didn&#8217;t expect us to get this far, so he didn&#8217;t bring the rivets to class. next week we&#8217;ll add the rivet and shape the ends a bit to be better for gripping things. it&#8217;s frustrating being limited by class time.. if i&#8217;d had just a bit longer (and the rivet), i could have finished. i still feel like i did the bulk of the work and you can see what it is.. so it counts for today&#8217;s thing.<\/p>\n<p>also i made a blister on my thumb and a purple pinky finger. fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in my blacksmithing class tonight, we started making tongs. we started with 2 steel bars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}