clinton

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

Is it just me, or is the second half of a cigar not nearly as good as the first?

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

Nice space you have there! I put my shop up in much the same way. Then my neighbor complained to the city and they made me tear it down because I put it up with out a permit. Hope you have nice neighbors.

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Nice work Clinton. You're a carpenter but you chose metal studs? I swung a framing hammer for years in my younger days and I've never tried metal stud construction. The missus needs another shed for her holiday decorations and I was thinking metal studs. How hard are they to use?

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

Nice job Clinton. Those were coming together nicely when i saw you yesterday. Thanks again for the sweet deal on the post vise. I'm gonna mount it up tomorrow. I need to forge a spring for the jaws, and make a bracket. Next time i come by i will be happy to swing the sledge for you! You have alot of neat stuff in your shop, i look forward to stopping by in the future when we can spend some time forging.

I live in potato country, and used a lot of digger chain for punches and chisels. It's got a narrow heat window to forge in, put it back in the fire if it's not red. Mark Aspery said it behaves like 1090-ish steel. It's hard to heat treat, I was breaking 2 or 3 tools out of 10 with an oil quench and blue temper, then Mark got us using the triple draw water quench method. I would recommend doing a full anneal in ashes on your new tongs, and never quench them when they get hot. I now make chisels, etc from S-7 and use the digger chain for dinner triangles. The high carbon triangles ring lots louder than mild steel.

Clinton,

Nice pair of tongs. I need to make some similar to that sometime soon.

Oh, and the pictures open nice and quick. I am on DSL, but I know what you mean about some of the pictures lately. Some are taking forever to open. What did you do different? is it all in the size of the file?

well not my first attempt but the first finished pair I used some potato digger chain it is 1/2 inch round 13mm for metric folks. I got this material years ago and now I cant remember what it is it gives a good spark of high carbon nice tight patern. the top pair is what I used as a guide to forging they are tom tongs actually tsur tongs I believe I needed 1/2 inch tongs and they look like they will work good and they feel good in the hand. anyone know what they use for the potato diggers? also I am resising my pics can someone give me some feed back on the dowload speed and quality of the pics I am on dsl and some of the pics I look at take too long to open up can imagine the folks on dial up

should be fine what type of electrode? 6011 7018 I know the have inershield and hard wire also some cheaper electrodes have more splatter and do not run as smooth as your name brands but they work just not as user friendly

ya you get a history lesson and a few good laughs as well as some great forge work he was at oktoerfest 2008 in ca I think it was 2008 had a great time

I found this sledge a couple of years ago at a local army surplus store it was the only one that they had at 25 bucks I would have bought more it weighs about 8lbs and has a makers mark on it it was labeled "sledgehammer, swiss" I know its hard to make out the touchmark there is a guy with anvil and above looks like a snake and below there is an F. It was a bargain at $25.00 wish there were more I asked the guys and they did not even know it was there right by the front door they prob thought it was a good door stop