time team special

[al]

anyone see the one last night about shefield ? very interesting , i never knew what actually went into knife making ,even started to see why all you blade heads are into it

 

[larry the spark]

I saw it, absolutely fascinating I thought. I've been playing at hobby knife making for a while now and found the whole process a real eye opener in parts, especially the danger involved in creating the knives and the difficulty the craftsmen had in creating the steel in the first place.

Top Show!

 

[al]

yeah, the exploding grinders !!!!!!! :yikes:

 

[EdS]

anyone know anything about Reg Cooper?

 

[Andy]

i put some info oabout him on britishblades. i have pics of some of his work if you pm me your email address ill send you a few. if i get a web site up ill put them on but that doesan't look likely anymore he used to work for william rodgers. he also was the maker of the offical sout knife. his knives seem very good to me

 

[Roving Rich]

The very little i saw of it looked fascinating, but i was at a Friends house with it on in the background, and loads of conversation in the forground... :-(
Anyone get it on video?
Cheers
Rich

 

[Keith_Beef]

yeah, the exploding grinders !!!!!!! :yikes:

Didn't see the programme. Do you mean the danger of a wheel breaking up?

"There's many a poor grinder, been struck down by such a blow,
There's few as face such hardships as we poor grinders do"


Keith.

 

[Keith_Beef]

yeah, the exploding grinders !!!!!!! :yikes:

Didn't see the programme. Do you mean the danger of a wheel breaking up?

"There's many a poor grinder, been struck down by such a blow,
There's few as face such hardships as we poor grinders do"


Keith.

The song as I quote it, from memory, is (I think) from a play called "Stirrings" about Chartist riots in Sheffield.

More interesting reading:
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~exy1/fh_material/18C_sheffield/ch3.txt

 

[larry the spark]

Apparently the exploding grind stones came about due to hidden faults in the quarried stone that gave them internal weaknesses that would lead to them exploding unexpectantly. It mentioned on the programme that as well as injuries being sustained to upper areas of the body, many deaths were caused from injuries below the waist line......ouch! Those craftsmen were tough guys!:ekt:

 

[Rob]

Grinding wheels are still pretty dodgy these days. You need to know what you are doing before even turning one on. Saying that, they are probably better than quarried stone for staying together.

I speak as someone who had a very lucky escape using a 9" angle grinder to cut off some container doors a few years ago. It went bang - but luckily all the bits flew past me and not in to me :-D