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waterknife

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  1. Hello! I was wondering what advice people might have for making a stand (free standing) for a 70-80 lb post vice that would be stable in the shop but also portable and fieldworthy. My best idea so far is a circle of diamond plate (so rollable) with a tube in the middle and possibly a small table mounted to the side. Thanks! Peter.
  2. Hello! I finally got my Buffalo Forge blower apart that was moving with great difficulty. Fortunately, all looks clean and fine with the all metal gears looking excellent as well. The issue appears to have been old crumbly gasket material that fell out of the join and caked up the gears. My questions are 1) are their any particular precautions I need to take when cleaning the whole thing out, and 2) what kind of lubrication should I use on re-assembly and where? Also, I just bought a new larger forge with a champion blower that has a blower motor with a rheostat. The firepot has what seems like concrete surrounding that is mostly intact but has a few cracks. Should I repair/replace it? Also the rheostat has what seems like dead spots, that I hope might work if cleaned? Thoughts or advice here please? Thanks! Peter.
  3. Well ain't this fun. Glad y'all are having so many laughs on my dime, and much thanks to those weighing in with suggestions. To muddy the waters a bit, I am only interested in the possibility of building a metal guitar body out of brass that resembles a National Style O as closely as I might get it or decide it needs to be, with some interesting references to saxes embedded in it somehow. The neck I will buy, the wood work is not an issue. I have numerous sax bodies that are essentially good for scrap as they have no keys, etc, and none of them are worth restoring. I am a long time sax and guitar player, so this seems like a good project for me if I can make it work. I have very little tooling, but have many smithing friends and connections, and possible access to a metal work shop. This guitar will not have any pickups. I will buy the cone. Sending the bodies or parts of the bodies through a roller was one idea I had. I would prefer to do the whole project out of recycled sax for spiritual reasons and out of a long time debt I owe brass and the spirit of saxophone. If I had to use some sheet brass that might be workable, but finding acoustically similar metal might be challenging and would be a compromise I'm not sure I can accept. I am very meticulous and very resourceful. I need a resophonic partner and ally for what I write, sing, and perform and have had several, but now I need "the one" (not that there's only one in the world haha) And, as one of my teachers once so eloquently put, it could be that making a guitar that is somehow artistically beautiful, has my sweat and blessing in it, but may not ultimately end up playable, could actually be the gift I need to offer up so that the right guitar will present itself. Chew on that one and fire away. ~Peter. ~if sounds do not reach the ear in the chest nothing happens~
  4. Greetings! I am a new blacksmith who also happens to be a musician, and I wonder how insane and/or impossible it would be for me to consider taking old brass saxophone bodies and flattening them and using them to construct a resophonic guitar body ala National style. I am not looking for perfection, and having the remnants of sax imprint would actually be preferred for a multitude of reasons. Anyone care to weigh in? Thanks! Peter.
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