Are lumps of cast iron any use to the smiths ?

[EdS]

Got to agree with Robin on this one. When we played it at school the Knurr was the ball (seem to remember golf balls being used) and the spell launched it. Our where a simple cup on a stick affair -- like a spoon real, with a another underneath by the "cup" end. Then you stamped on the handle end to launchthe knurr.

The bit you hit hte knurr wit hwas just called a bat.

 

[decorum]

...pronounced cowp not coop.

I did a bit of a search using phonetics and the rooting is ...

There's not one word I used that's odd, it's you lot that don't understand plain English

... French . _Plain_ English? No real beastie past the cauldron of myth, amalgamation and theft ~ have you come across the book '1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue' by Francis Grose? It's available as a free download from kindle (??possibly others??)




N.B. In this instance, Vulgar Tongue is what we would now call colloquialisms or slang

 

[British Red]

Ahh so - we agree on the "non Sprung" Ed - but you and Robin agree the spell is the launcher

We should just make one and have a game to settle it!

Now I am from skittle country - so I need a head start!

 

[robin wood]

sorry for the knurr and spell digression hope folk don't mind. This is an interesting link giving lots of similar games, lots fo different names and local customs all very interesting, http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/knur-spell.htm
This pic of a chap pressing his heads is identical to the old press my mate Andy uses. We took well seasoned apple wood and compressed it from 2" thick down to less than 1", the difference in how a knurr bounced of it was remarkable.

 

[EdS]

don't think you'll be that disadvantaged -- its over 30 years since I played it at school. And I was only diddy at the time

 

[British Red]

Fascinating stuff - but in the article that reads as part of the game of "nipsy" rather than knurr & spell?

 

[bilmo-p5]

Oh no they don't got to be steel or iron:

http://www.mashamsportsassociation.co.uk/quoits-2/ruleshow-to-play/

Landlubber's variant.

 

[British Red]

For those interested in obscure games of this ilk, I first encountered it in Michael Greens superb book "the art of coarse drinking"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Coarse-Drinking-Michael-Green/dp/1861053916

I commend this book to the lovers of English pub games, drinking and socialising (and a good laugh at uppity landlords)

 

[British Red]

Actually soory Mary for a total thread hijack We need a thread on totally silly games

 

[santaman2000]

....A knurr is a wee carved ball and a spell is a spill, though we'd use them at the fire to take a light, not a whacking great stick of a thing.
Is it not a kind of golf clay pigeon shoot thing ? Like a camachd stick and a ball but not a team game, just one man and a thing to launch the ball ?

cheers,
M

Sounds like a batting cage.

 

[Toddy]

I'm enjoying it it's kind of why I joined the forum; the sheer range of topics keeps it interesting.

French I know I cook with French terms, but I didn't know just how many other words came across too.

Talking of games....petanque...............bools, boules, bowls, sort of.....

atb,
M

 

[British Red]

Ahh but in petanque its a sort of underarm limp wristed "chuck" as opposed to the roll of bowls.....I like petanque more!

 

[robin wood]

I could never get on with the pastis

 

[British Red]

Now there we agree......mais un petit Calvados peut-être m'sieur?

 

[horsevad]

(...)
It's cast iron. Is it of any use to any of the smiths if there's any smithing going on at a meet up that I'm likely to get to ?
(...)

Cast Iron is useless for forging applications. The high carbon content and crystal structure makes it very different to forged steel.

It _can_ be made into usefull steel, but that would require the use of a tatara or similar process.

BTW, Cast Iron should be recycled - you may even get paid for it. Round here scrap metal is worth about 1 DKR pr kg.

//Kim Horsevad

 

[dave53]

well if we can get back on the original thread start I've just got hold of 13 of those sash window counter weights so what are they made of and what can they be used for regards dave

 

[Toddy]

Selling for scrap apparantly :/ and there was me thinking it might be useful Oh well, we live and learn.
cheers,
Toddy

 

[tombear]

Well, I still want Abraham Darby cooking pot, so I just need some green sand, a furnace and some one who knows casting...


Im not holding my breath

ATB

Tom

 

[Toddy]

What's an Abraham Darby cooking pot ?
I have a little Carron three legged cauldron type pot, a very early one

M

 

[British Red]

Well, I still want Abraham Darby cooking pot, so I just need some green sand, a furnace and some one who knows casting...


Im not holding my breath

ATB

Tom

Cauldron 5 by British Red, on Flickr