[Crafting/Solo] Screwing the screws

[oddytiudnir]

“Mmmh, today what will I do today?” Oddy Pondered while looking at things in his inventory but also at his interface then suddenly he knew. “Oh! I totally forgot I have to make things for Bailin, I´ll start with a screwdriver that has a Phillips head, so he can screw those screws real tight on his projects.” Oddy chuckled at the dry joke he made and stood up to go shopping in Londinium.


Sometime later Oddy returned with supplies which he knew he would need to make the screwdriver, this includes two pieces of Metal and a Quencher used to cool off the screwdriver a few times during the process.


Oddy cracked his neck and turned door knob of Bailin´s house and then entered, as he knew his way around the house he quickly found what he was looking for and opened another door and entered the Garage-Forge where he put the materials on a bench and picked up some coal to put in the hearth, then he went outside for a bit to watch the marvellous idea start to work as the waterwheel was turning it provided the power for the bellows to blow air into the fire which made it hotter and hotter so eventually Oddy could work on the screwdriver itself. Oddy then went and picked up the Quencher to fill the soak tub with.


“Right, that is the quencher, now to heat up the metal and start hammering the pieces together so, hopefully the screwdriver gets made and Bailin has a new toy to play with.”

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[oddytiudnir]

Oddy grunted as he donned a leather apron and then went to grab the tong with which he picked up the metal and put it on the hearth, hoping the heat would be sufficient and hot enough to at least make it hot enough that he could hammer it at such a rate that the shape would become visible soon enough.


A few minutes later Oddy picked up the hot metal with the tong and guided it over to his anvil where he started to hammer it in a more or less cylindrical shape, as he continued to work on it, he had to stop for a moment to wipe away some sweat from his face to prevent it from getting in his eyes since that would spell disaster for him.


“Mmmh…This is some pretty hard work really, now I know how all those blacksmiths become so strong oh well at least I am experiencing it for myself as well right now…Considering this…is a game and yet..Mmmmrh, better not linger on that now…Panic can come later.” Sighed oddy as he went back to work transporting the metal to the soak tub where he quenched it as to cool it down and then went back to the forge where he placed the metal again to let it heat up and then after a few minutes passed he transported it back to the anvil using the tong and started hammering it again.

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[oddytiudnir]

Then the moment came that he had to stretch a bit of the metal to make the Shaft of the screwdriver, with the handle being almost done but not yet enough.

Oddy started to stretch the metal but took care as to not stretch it too long and soon had a shaft on which he worked to make it more sturdy and hammered it so often that he trained the muscles in his arm, while the other hand still held the tong with which he held the metal down. As the shaft was close to being finished all that remained was the tip and the engraving of Oddy´s initials Oddy moved the working object to the soak tub and quenched it, with all the hot air coming from it, Oddy let it cool down for a bit before moving it to the forge again with only the tip being heated up, as the tip was heated up enough he carried it back to the anvil where he placed it straight up in the Pritchel hole and walked away to get some other tools, as he returned he made a small hole in the middle of the tip and proceeded to finely chisel a vertical stripe and a horizontal stripe right in the middle. “Bah, making iron screwdrivers is pretty darn hard.” Said Oddy

as he looked at the result after he had quenched it again in the soak tub. “Now for my trademark…” Said Oddy as he placed the Iron screwdriver with the tip facing down and he started to engrave his initials on the back of it, first he made a capital o through he then at first made a vertical line ending just a bit above the top of the capital o then he made the horizontal line with extra care so that he didn´t mess it up and had to start all over again when the horizontal line was finished it showed a capital o with a capital t over it signalling his initials.

Oddy sighed as he looked at the finished product. “Right, now to get it to Bailin.”

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