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In Remembrance of those that served, All gave some and some gave all ! In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, May 1915 In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

<----- Blushes ...Aww Gee, thanks Rich, thats a Heckuva compliment :)

Better pic in the morning light

LARRY, I saw over on the bladesmith forum that Lorelei has one for sale : "25# Little Giant for Sale - Old Style - Made in Wisconsin - Excellent Condition and some tooling is included. I will e-mail you photographs upon request. $2000 firm with free delivery within 100 miles of Charleston, Illinois. Thanks and have a good day! Lorelei lorelei@blacksmithchic.com" While It may not be cheap you should contact her , never know, she may have a soft spot for kiddies Jens

Just like the title says, an old Nicholson Black Diamond file , and a chunk of post industrial waste, curly maple. Nickel silver tube and copper pins. Jens Lovin -this too rainy to work on the house-so I can work in the shop weather :D

Christopher, THE Irnsrgn gave you some very sound advice there. I use a forge something like this everyday, if you add a few shovel fulls of dirt, clay, kitty litter ( new - not used ) or fireplace ashes will give you a nice deep fire pot of a use-able size. To give you an idea for scale, IN MY forge I like to have 10-15 cm of burning charcoal between the air-gate/ tuyre and the steel to be heated then another 10-20 cm of charcoal on top. With a slow -N-Low air blast, This makes for a reducing fire, very little free -or- un-burned O2 in the sweet spot. = no bad scale problems. Regarding your particular air problem , you may have too much air pressure and just not enough CFM of air flow. Your vacuum blower will work , you just need to control the fan speed, its currently much too fast, a woodworker's router speed controller or any rheostat rated for motors would be just the ticket. Hope this helps Jens

First one from a new batch of 1080 ... Sorry about he bad pic, Hamons are a bugger to take pics of at night, I'll post a better one in the morning Jens