Sukellos

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?

C-Clamps...I must have 15 or 20 of them in various sizes. I don't even know where half of them came from.


I took an old 12" or so c-clamp and cut off the bottom. I welded a hardy shank to it and use it to clamp stuff to the top of my anvil while I punch or cut. It's not real fast so you need to get it set close to the thickness of the workpiece before you heat the metal. I have a place to wedge it below the anvil but it will wedge itself into the hardy hole quite nicely without the pin. It comes in handy from time to time. You can also weld a couple of c-clamps together at the backs or bases so as to have a double clamp for holding metal at odd angles or such for welding.

Hi All!
I'm brand new to this site and I've never posted before, ever! I hope I can grasp the technicalities. I'm only marginally computer-literate.

I have a bunch of scrap brass/bronze laying about. Two days ago, I grabbed an old wrought iron plumber's lead melting ladle and threw a bunch of brass into it and shoved it in my propane forge. I half expected the ladle to give out before the brass melted, but the brass went liquid in a few minutes. I didn't know what to do with it then, so I made a small furrow in the sand of my smithy floor and poured it in. At least now I can reduce all of that scrap to some sort of ingot-like pieces that will take up less space.