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Greetings all,

 

Here in Michigan it was -20 with the wind chill..  Warmed up the shop and spent some quality time by myself..  My wife went down state and I had some free time...   What can be better ..  A cherry fritter... fresh cup of tea... Iron in the forge...  Life is good....   Our next meeting in Mich the theme is toilet paper holders..  I made this simple one for Iron in the Hat..   I had a great day ... WHAT DID YOU DO FOR YOURSELF TODAY ????

 

Forge on and make beautiful things

 

Jim

 

I edited an all caps title that was very hard to read.

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Well, it wasn't below freezing, but my "smithy" doesn't have any heat, either. 

 

I've been been procrastinating long enough, so I did some cutting and cussing......

 

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I haven't decided how I want to do the base.  In the drawing, I've got a circle of 1/4" round stock just because it's neat and different.  But I might go with some plate.  The idea is that I can drop the top jaw down to the anvil's face and do one-sided fullering.  Both jaws are replaceable so I can do all sorts of funky top/bottom fuller combinations.

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FINALLY got some time and began prepping for a sculpture commision of Pluto and Persephone. Gathered up all the steel I will be using and gave it all a "mental dry run" for how I will go about fabricating it. I will have some progress tomorrow on the build. Pics will be posted as it progresses in my "An intense commission" thread. Very exited the ball got rolling on this finally. Deadline is the 1st day of spring.

-Crazy Ivan

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Went to visit friends,  stopped at Mom's welded and fixed her gate.  Checked out Dads steel piles found just what I needed to make my treadle hammer.  :)  Be nice if the old man was around to see what I'm doing...  sure he's watching from the otherside.  then on down the road to visit.  the hard part is the next week of work til I can get back and load up some steel.  just itching to start building...

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Well it was in the 70's today down here and sunny with a light wind.  After church I ran a load of clothes and hung it out and fired up the forge to work on a cooking spider.  Cleaned up some of the no weld chain I made Saturday when I took my forge to an SCA event (spent most of the time working a student through doing a few new to him things and we made a dishing hammer as the main project.)

 

At church I was asked about teaching a fellow in the local fire department and told him that I'd have the forge at Church next Saturday as part of the Cowboy service and bonfire and potluck---the rector wants to forge large nails, the head of the youth group wants to make shuriken; the rector's wife want to work on bells from tanks---plenty of room for another student that day!

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Got up early to move several inches of (50 ft x 15 ft driveway)snow so we could go to Church for Services with our new Pastor and our annual meeting with a pot luck lunch and got elected Deacon! Thought about the projects in the unheated shop and got spring fever again. Winter storm warning with 35 to 45 below wind chill made a nap seem like a winner. Life is good!!

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Hi Jim,
Your posting amazed me - I have been doing roll holders today as well. Toilet roll holders on opposite side of the world!!
I have to do a small commissioned job for a bathroom reno - two towel rails, a towel ring, a couple of leaf hooks and a toilet roll holder.
I will try to attach a photo of the ones I did today. I thought I would make a few so that the buyer can select the one she wants. I put them on a wall to see how they sat.
Cheers from Aus.

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Well, in Northern Wisconsin it was bitter cold well below zero with high winds. I spent a miserable cold afternoon kneeling in the snow working on a tractor, mine this time. Had two dead batteries, I load tested 'em, completly dead, time for new ones but after 14 years they don't owe me anything. Took a while to warm up once I finally came in at dusk, I think I'll wait til the end of the week to put it back together, by that time my neighbor farmer will have something broke down too so I can spend another miserable day freezing my hands working on his too. Some things never change.

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All y'all do know that you are doing that to yourself---right?

 

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Thomas-Are you sure you getting all the medicine you need? Posting all that sunny weather for us Wisconsin folk is just mean. Why is that sunny in Wisconsin means -20 and sunny in New Mexico is a balmy 76? If we have much more of this weather I'll have to spend my days hanging out by the 3000 ton press watching them break down 30,000 blocks of steel basking it is artificial tropical glow.

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Heat and no Forge or forge and no heat. Solved my problem today. I took the gas hose off my readdy heater to test my gas forge burner, worked great until garage hit 20 degrees. So I order a second hose and got second LP tank. Today I found all the connections I need to connect the forge burner to LP tank. Hope to give it a try this weekend. Going to get up to 25 degrees in low Michigan Saturday. Jim heat rises so it might warm up a little more your way this weekend.  :)

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Not sure, but I may have Thomas beat.  I'm tossing in this with the ocean view from my house. Don't ask what the rent is.

 

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Life is always good.

Spent Sunday (as this was started then), it the rain (under supervision of the wife) clearing out my end of the garden. 3 trips to the tip (trash dump) later and I found the gas forge and her trellis project that got buried at christmas.  Got me hankering to start the brick forge and finish the shed for it that I promised myself a year ago. 

 

Thomas - Please post the weather report come Easter and its over 100 down your way.  Kids never let me forget the melted easter eggs for the backyard hunt! (San Antonio in '98).

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