It followed me home

[KevinD]

Originally Posted by jayco

The cat is not new, and has been here for some time.....pay him no mind.........

I like the cat.

[rfb343]

I got a 20 pound sledge from ollies junk store today sans handle, Im not sure what exactly to do with it now that I brought it home other that whittle down a utility pole for the handle, but I felt that I *NEEDED* to have a RFBBFH

[Frosty]

Make an oliver hammer out of it. I have a 18 lb straight pein I'm thinking of doing it to.

Frosty

[rfb343]

Originally Posted by Frosty

Make an oliver hammer out of it. I have a 18 lb straight pein I'm thinking of doing it to.

Frosty

That's what I was thinkin about doin, as I also got a mousehole that beat 90m percent to death, but I was hopin that Appreniceman would have the BP for the helve hammer he posted the sketch for a few months ago....

[irnsrgn]

I took a 3 small Ash logs to the local bandsawmill today, he wouldn't tough the short ones, but I left the long one. I happened to notice some just sawn oak boards laying out on a pile. Seems he sawed up a Burr Oak log and it had some bullets and some wire in it. There was one 12 inch wide one that had some thin spots and about 8 6inch wide ones. The customer didn't want them and he was gonna cut them up for firewood, but if I wanted them I could have them, they jumped in the back of my S10 and rode home. They are now in a Container I am renting for storage of lots of stuff plus some of my 3 daughters stuff from my mother and their late mother. It gets nice and hot in there and they are stickered and stacked.

[djhammerd]

IRNSRGN.... Be aware that if green wood dries too fast, it will split and warp. That's why kilns are controlled environments.

[RainsFire]

could alway's just paint the ends with white glue or latex paint

[Frosty]

This followed me home a couple years ago. It's a #60, 6" jaws, opens to 10 with 5 1/2" throat.

I bought it from a guy at work who was clearing out his Dad's shop, he was asking $20. I almost hurt myself getting my wallet out.

I knew it was an excellent deal but till now I didn't know how good. I finally got around to building a stout bench and dug it out to put on the bench. I headed down to the hardware store to pick up some large wood screws and out of curiosity took a look at the Wiltons on their shelf.

$898!! for the largest one they had there and it looked smaller but I didn't read the size so I could be wrong. I spent a little time online and see similar ones new for between $1,200 and $850 + S&H. eBay has a couple in the $300-500 range.

I may have to take it back off the bench, clean it up and paint it now.

Frosty

[Justin Caradoc]

good deal Frosty. That thing looks like a monster fist.

[irnsrgn]

djhammer, I prefer not to use kiln dried lumber unless I absolutely have to, its brittle unlike air dried lumber and as I do a lot of steam bending occassionaly, my experience along with others is even with absolutely straight grained kiln dried material, it will break when bending even if soaked in hot water. That's why furniture mfgs buy "deals" usually 9 by 4.5 inch fresh green sawn material from sawmills, so they can air dry it for resawing and steam bending parts for the making of furniture.