Innovation Forge LLC

-Stamp n Steel Sunday-
Lorenzini metal and machinery, Bologna Italy
1900s stamp

Photos from Bologna of Foot blog https://pauls-bologna.blog/2024/08/12/bolognas-wrought-iron/

Nazel repair

This casting had vibrated itself apart in January and needed to brazed back together. The hammer has been back up and running great for the last couple months but I figured I’d show off the process of several of the repairs we made.

The 1932 International Foundry Exhibition and Congress was held in Paris at the Parc des Expositions in September 1932. Organized by the General Union of Founders of France, the event served as a major interwar showcase for industrial innovation, metallurgy, and machine aesthetics.

The machine was a dominant trope of interwar modernism.

Aleksandr Vasil′yevich Mosolov (1900–73): Zavod: muzïka mashin (‘Factory: The Music of Machines’, 1927), usually known outside Russia as the Iron Foundry

-Grilled cheese and Tapers-

It’s forge cooking Friday.
We are wrapping up a big batch of scrolls and the forge was the perfect temp for some grilled cheese and homemade tomato soup.

—3D Printer & Lathe—

We are constantly finding that the 3d printers excels at quickly making precise jigs and fixtures for the workshop.

This finial was designed in fusion 360 and then printed and cast in aluminum then the 3D print was inverted and reprinted to create this handy holder for facing the ends and drilling the holes.

It really cut down on set up time and we were able to print it in just about an hour while we were out testing another project!

- Stamp N’ Steel Sunday -

Kokomo- “where the wheels always turn”

A 1919, industrial poster turned in to a stamp to highlight the grow industrial industry in Kokomo, Indiana, USA.

The city of Kokomo was named for the Miami Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo who was called “Chief Kokomo”.

1894 – Elwood Haynes makes the first successful trial run of his “horseless carriage” on Pumpkinvine Pike

1894 – The first pneumatic rubber tire in the US was created by D.C. Spraker

1895 – The first aluminum casting was developed by William “Billy” Johnson from the Ford and Donnelly Foundry.

1906 – The first Stellite cobalt-base alloy
1912 – Stainless steel tableware was invented by Elwood Haynes as a response to his wife’s desire for tableware that wouldn’t tarnish.

1920 – The mechanical corn picker was created by John Powell.

1923 – William Swern Sr. developed the first tire-building machine for mass production of auto tires

1928 – The first canned tomato juice was created by Walter Kemp

1938 – The first push-button car radio was created at Delco Radio Division

1941 – Globe American Stove Company manufactured the first all-metal life boats and rafts

1947 – The first signal-seeking car radio was created by the Delco Radio Division

1956 – Delco Radio Division of General Motors produced a transistorized signal-seeking car (hybrid) radio

1957 – Delco Radio Division of General Motors produced an all-transistor car radio

From 1914 through 1986, the Continental Steel Corporation facility produced nails, wire and wire fence, operations had included reheating, casting rolling, drawing, pickling, galvanizing, tinning and tempering.

Not all 1st are good however Kokomo also had:
Continental Steel Corporation filed for bankruptcy in 1986 and the soil was found to be highly contaminated and required $6 million in cleanup and mitigation.

The first aerial bomb with fins.
The howitzer shell
Largest K*K gathering- “literally half the town” were members
First person expelled from school due to AIDS- Ryan White.
A mayor who gunned down a civilian in broad daylight, still reelected, then was later shot to death in his office by the sheriff.

-Large cast finial-

This has been a great experience embracing technology to allow truly customised items. We were able to design many iterations of finials and then crank them out of the 3d printer. Until everything was just right. Then get that molded and cast by our neighbors Madd Castings.

It was an easy push of a bottom to print more for extra batches when the need arose.

-Vise surgery-

We have this 4.5” 39 # vise restored and for sale. Check FB marketplace if you are in Colorado or shoot us a DM. Happy to ship!

-Forgewelding feet-

Repairing a slew of leg vises that I have accumulated over the years. This one needed a new peg leg. Fastest solution seemed to be a bit of pipe welded around the leg to give that authentic look! What do you think!

Vise available for sale just DM