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A little Repoussé-on-the-Road.

That's about $165 today.

In an IFI context, it makes more sense to add a comment to a thread you want to resurrect than it does to post a link to it. The former gets the original conversation going again, while the latter can create a separate discussion.

The question isn't how we survived childhood; it's how many didn't. See Abraham Wald and the bullet hole map.

I’ve made a couple of nice chisels from truck leaf spring after splitting it lengthwise with a handled hot cut and the treadle hammer.

I believe powdered lime sulfur is the standard mercury spill cleanup, but I could be wrong.

Also, cut away one side of my grinder station and welded in a frame made from an old bed rail: To hold a recently acquired tackle box: Which in turn holds supplies for the buffer:

A quick(ish) utensil holder for the kitchen.

A few estate sale goodies; $10 total. The tackle box is especially fortuitous, as I have a storage need for which none of my other spare toolboxes were the right size.

When I was attending the college where I currently work, it was surrounded by cornfields. The same fields are still there, but nowadays they rotate between corn and soybeans.

Were the yellow jackets all holding the same chainsaw, or did they each have their own?

I'm one of those weird hybrids that use an iPhone and a PC, so I can't take advantage of the app's capacity for sharing between iOS devices. There is a cloud-based sharing option that I could use to edit phone uploads on my laptop, but I'm too cheap to spring for a subscription that I don't really need. Not at all! Just scan the books where they are, and it'll be easier to locate a particular volume within the chaos!

$4.99. There’s a field for “Physical location”, so you could number your boxes and add those numbers to each book’s record.

My smithing library has expanded beyond the point where I can remember all of the titles on my shelves. This is occasionally a problem if I’m browsing online or looking in a used book store, and a couple of times, I’ve ended up buying duplicates. In looking for a solution, I discovered a rather good cataloging app called Book Buddy, which comes in a free version and a paid version. These have the same features; the only difference is that the free version has room for a mere 50 volumes, while the paid version (a one-time fee, not a subscription) allows an unlimited number. The features I’ve used most so far are the categorization function, which lets you decide how to organize your books: And the barcode scanner, which lets you quickly identify books by ISBN: Without having to type in all their individual details: For books that don’t have a barcode, you can scan or type in the ISBN, and for older volumes that predate the ISBN system or that were published privately, you can enter the details manually. I haven’t yet tried it with periodicals (such as The Anvil’s Ting or The Hammer’s Blow), but I’ll keep you all posted on how that goes.

While you're at it, check out the Hopewell Furnace National Historical Site: https://www.nps.gov/hofu/index.htm. They've also got a pretty well kitted out blacksmith shop.