clinton

I just finished a set of fireplace tools for my house, well 3 pieces and the stand are complete I still need to set up a broom. For the stand I used a piece of 3/4 sq stock and forged a horse head on top then punched holes in each leg to rivet through. The tools are 28 inches long and they work good the tongs are real good for picking up logs real simple design

a sign like this may deter people I found this at work one day after the gouging was complete it was thrown out and now i am recycling it to a location in my shop

looks like a nice build you may find that the pan will warp on you, better to let it just sit on the base than to weld it if it starts to warp just cut those welds loose that will allow for expasion

I saw a demo at a cba event spring conference in Exeter, CA Tom Clark and Tsur Sadan and others they slit and drifted a piece of 2'' round with a 2'' drift and place a piece of the same material through this and creates a joint when cooled that is very solid. I know the drift has to be just a little bit smaller than the parent metal this drift is hammered all the way through from one side then another heat is taken and then you insert the other member. Does any one know the formula for the drift size? I tried this with 1/32'' smaller drift and it came out too loose i was using 1/2'' stock and my drift is 15/32. I will try to take another heat and resize the drift but its like spitting hairs the belt sander is another option (too slow)

ya that was great i love to see a true craftsman at work like that

thanks for that link to the video now it all makes sense that guy is good and is he strapped to the machine? guess hes not afraid of that thing coming loose

go on ebay there are all kinds of rr spikes for sale seems like they are getting away with it no problem

the forging is great you had to move allot of metal your writing is fine and i bet the beer that you are opening is much better than the twist off bottles that were mentioned earlier i like a good pilsner the Czech beers are excellent

ya karen this sure did get some heated response and i hope that i dont get red flagged by the city but it sure is nice the rain started falling yesterday just after i finished installing the downspouts. Dora seems to like it she is quite supportive with most of what i do although she wants more orginization i kinda bounce from one thing to another and dont finish things alot of the time if i didnt know better i would think i was a tweeker too many projects not enough time oh ya and welcome back frosty

they look great very clean work getty-up try resizing your pics i am on dsl and they take about 20 seconds to open up the poor dial up folks prob 2 or 3 min ?? just a sugestion i know its a pain to figure out

awesome side car my dog would love to take a ride in that welcome aboard

very nice brian i went by the school on fri and showed the instructor the bbq tools that i made he was very impressed he thought that you made them at first i need to work on the ears they need to be further back i will be at the forge this week got my shop all covered up now its supposed to rain all week

try smoking a punch rubusto i smoke em right down till i cant hold on any more you can prob get cubans in bc as well dont let them burn out on you that will make it harsh the lighter the color of the wrapper the melower the cigar JRCigars.com: PUNCH - 5T - TISSUE WRAPPED ROBUSTO CIGARS, From Honduras, 5.00 x 54, $74.95 (MSRP $120.00) this is what i like

do us a favor and go to user cp and enter your location (people from all over the world on here) millers are good but i prefer lincoln myself i would sugest finding an older used machine i think they are better quality than what they are selling now unless you want an inverter (something you can tote around) LINCOLN IDEAL ARC 250 ARC - TIG WELDER - eBay (item 130349669331 end time Dec-11-09 17:56:22 PST) this looks like a good machine

ya the nay-bors i hope no one says anything the guy behind me prob wont say anything next door i think im good caddy corner is a little iffi thinking about a little gift maybe some trivets or something to keep every one happy

yes i am a carpenter and out here metal stud framing is a good portion of our work i have been doing it primarily for over 10 years it is actually very easy to work with just noisy when cutting with a chop saw we use a lot of "heavy gauge" material (16ga-12ga) we use self tapping screws except on 25ga use pointers 16'' oc or 24'' oc and it is usually built in place as opposed to wood frame where you stand the wall up after you frame it. i could go on but if you want any pointers when you build that shed just send me a p-m and i will help you out

this is something that I learned on the job from a lather, you weld a large washer on the screw it makes the clamps work much better you can tighten the clamp without releasing and also loosen it when it is too tight so it doesn't snap back at you when you release. I use a washer that is 2 1/2'' dia on the 11'' clamp and 1 1/2'' on the small clamp. make sure to use a heavy duty washer small ones do not work well, i get left over stuff from the iron workers that do the erection they always have left overs. also what I have noticed is that the older vice grips are better quality than the stuff they are selling now so I look for them at yard sales and flea markets 5 bucks for a large clamp is a good deal

nice work looks great with the knotty wood is that pine or cedar? and i thought i had a lot of vise grips what i do with mine is weld a large washer on the screw it makes them work so much better you can tighten if needed with out releasing and also loosen them when they are real tight so they dont snap back at you i use a 2 1/2'' dia washer on the 11'' clamp

vey nice brian and karen good thinking very practical can you show a picture of the end where the mop attaches? i can kinda see it in the first shot it looks like you just flatened the end and wrapped it around the mop to hold it. thanks clinton

thanks for the input guys fe-wood yes i am planing some type of protection for the wind i have some heavy canvas that should work nice also my dad is up there in your neck of the woods maybe i will try to come by your place next time i am up that way. divermike- we grow every thing over here in the way of produce we are the salad bowl of the world a bag of artichokes is like 6 bucks at farm stand. today i am going to the local college to make some gutters i have two pieces of 18 ga sheet metal it was going to cost about $120.00 at home repot and i am not working now so i figured this would be the best way just need to use the 10' sheet metal brake and the shear

finally got around to putting a roof over my shop just in time they say it may rain next week although we havent had much in the past few years we will see. i framed it out of metal studs used 6'' 16ga for the posts welded 12'' oc i built two box headers to span the shop area the joists are 2 1/2'' 18 ga the roof panels were salvaged off a building that was going to be tore down. the studs were left over from jobs i worked in the past so it only cost me my own labor to put up

found this a few years back pretty cool I like to collect vises and anvils(small ones that fit on fireplace) that is a quarter to show the scale

wow this is awesome there is a guy asking for help on door knockers some nice ones in here

ya i shut down the forge after you left had to finish in the morning ya wish i could have given you a full tour but next time you come over we will get to all that have fun with that vise the spring is an easy fix

wow thanks for that info i did not realize that stuff is that tuff i was going to oil quench but after posing the pics and trying to research the digger chain my fire went out