Another home made fullering and whatever tool

[Finnr]

Full Bore Frosty Fuller and Smithin' machine?
Finnr

[S.Willis]

Great idea. (Frosty's fantastic fooling around fuller)

[mike-hr]

I made a sliding stop for my gullotine tool similiar to ornametalsmith's getup, several months back. It's made the tool a 'league' handier, I would like to promote the idea as a good one. A lot of smithing is isolating material to a dimension, and then dealing with the material. The sliding stop makes for crisp corners without having to eyeball when rotating the stock, and also makes easier repeatable outcomes to dimension.

[Frosty]

I made a couple more dies a, cutoff, butcher and veiner and gave it a test drive yesterday.

It'll definitely get adjustable stops next. It worked very well otherwise. The cutoff parted 1/2" sq. with three whacks from a 5lb. single jack. The cut was nice and even with minimal spreading.

The butcher dressed it almost saw cut square though I used a lighter hammer and more smacks to minimize the chance it'd jam.

The veiner did a decent job but was hard to see which brings me to my next comment.

I'm thinking I should've angled it the other way so it'd be easier to see precisely where the veiner or other die is contacting the work. As it is the frame partially obscures the contact point.

Another little (very little) mod I made was to weld a hook on the back of the frame to hang a wrench for adjusting the bolts.

A deflector to stop small pieces from shooting across the shop is also in order, either clip on or maybe magnetic so I can pull it for working longer stock.

I'll post a couple pics of the new dies when Deb gets around to unloading the camera and sending them to me.

Frosty