ironsmith

You are right about the clutter!
that is why I built the rack,
I am not finished with it yet , I am going to add one more row for hammers and then fill in the rest of the space with tubes to hold hand tools and punches~!
as far as the casters My shop is so small i have to be able to roll it out of the way to move around ...
thanks for the comments!

this grinder was made by trial and error , no plans , just some ideas in my head and some looks at a bader grinder a buddy has.
took about 6 months of work, off and on, only parts bought were the wheels and bearings

This is a tool rack I just made today. Took about 2 hours.
most of the time was scrounging around my metal pile!:D

thanks for the compliments!
as far as the siding in my shop, i used to work for lowes, and the ceder tongue and groove inside my shop was left out side for a looooong time , asked my manager about buying it , and got it
for a song! I miss the deals i used to get there for sure!

I have also been fascinated by the golden ratio, there is also a gauge you can make to create spirals as well,
here is the link to it fibbonacci there is a pdf there that you can use as a pattern to make it ...
also check out the tool song lateralus, it has a lot of fibbonacci in it as well , the song is based on it :blink:

hey guys , thought i would post a pic or two of my 2x72 belt grinder and my power hammer,
the hammer I built in a class with Clay Spencer,
the belt grinder I made from scrap I had,
the idler wheel and drive wheel were bought from Beaumont
the contact wheel is a 10 inch grizzly I had milled to accept some bearings,( A real cheap alternative, Think I had about 80 bucks in it.)

:unsure:

if you dont mind spending a little money , try smartflix it is like netflix for how to videos, blacksmithing knife making and many other crafts...

;)i think this is what doc was trying to show us the link

thanks for telling me about Brian Baily, monster metal. That looks exactly like what i need, might try to make one next time i get to go to the forge...

kinda looks like the super sucker side draft hood,
built one of those myself hehe
thanks for posting the your mod!

well , my hand drifts are flat on the parallels, and rounded on the other sides just like in marks video, but the one i made for the power hammer was a little more rectangular and not so rounded,
i wouldnt say it was like a slitter, maybe the geometry is wrong on the taper of it...
will post some pics when i get some time, wont be soon though... gotta work this weekend

hey doc , you mean this video here?

mark sure is a talented cuss ~!~
when your on youtube, click on his name it will show you all the videos he has posted!
thanks for reminding me about it...

hehe, well grant,
the hand drifts I made will do OK, but the one i made for my 50# tire hammer is somewhat too tall for the stroke and It doesn't drift the hole symmetrically, that's my fault of course .
I am mainly wondering what others use for drifting the eye on a power hammer,
also wondering about cheeking the out-sides of the hammer eye...

thanks :unsure:

hey guys,


I just spent a couple hours at the forge making two hammer eye drifts and some other hand toos. they came out ok but I also tried to make one for the power hammer,
This did not work and i am not sure where to go from there.
does anyone have experience making hammers with a power hammer?
what tooling do you use and got any pics?
any help would be appreciated

Thanks a bunch

nice to meet ya "still learnin" I am in south carolina too, and in case you didnt know we have a guild in the state that meets every other month, here is the link to the website.
happy and safe smithin to ya~!

Hey guys,
I ran across a 8" contact wheel for real cheep but it didn't have the bearing hub assembly, and I cant find replacements for less than 90 bucks.
Does anybody know of an alternative hub assembly that will work?
or a cheaper alternative?
I AM CHEAP!!!!

Thanks,
Jody

contact the Phillip simmons artist blacksmith guild of south carolina guld web site ( go to the contacts page) call the president he may be able to get you a scource in Charleston, I am not sure i remember right, but a guy down there use to sell coal by the truck load, believe his name was Lane Law, ask the Pres about him...
hope that helps.

Ironsmith

thanks for the name drop kenny 0 I had the trading cards from big daddy roth when i was a kid,


Whats your plans for the lumberjack? btw..

That is xxxxxxx Awesome, reminds me of those old monsters in hot rods pictures i saw when i was a kid! you got any pics on how you made him?
really cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:P

I believe that means the wood is put into a vacuum chamber and then injected with an Epoxy resin , colors can be added as well in the process, but this "stabilizes" the wood to prevent cracking and deformation due to humidity and temperature changes.


the knives look really nice too for sure!

Curly,
Google came up with this link for hawkins
http://www.hawkinsknifemakingsupplies.com/

hope it helps :)

you can buy a grounding strap at any radio shack or computer repair shop, and all it consists of is a wire with a comfortable velcro strap attached to you and the wire continuing to an alligator clip to attach to what you want to be grounded to... seems like a good way to fix the problem.
I imagine you could make one with some stranded insulated copper wire??

here is an example of one ...

hehe, thats a good question Grant !:blink:

pecan's smeekans, i settle for some boiled peanuts! fer sure.
Nice knives too , the shape of the handle looks really comfortable...
thanks for posting em !:D

Welcome aboard Andrew, and by the way that is a cool avatar pic you have! reminds me of a fibonacci scroll :rolleyes: