JerryCarroll

You're still on our list here Ed, Prayer is powerful!

James Meek's book "Art of Engraving" has a very good section on inlaying. It's a fine book for design and layout basicaly for gun engravers. I really like it.

I got the new Lee Valley catalogs this week. I am amazed at the tools they have available! Great pictures show tool details & quality of the tools too.

Our deepest condolences and Prayers for Wayne and the family. Jerry & Carol Carroll

I use these 2 tools for my fire tending and a small shovel to load the coal to the fire. I used electric fence posts for stock for the tools.

ec, I use a hinged setup too with a pin opposite the hinge to hold the glass in place. I've got pictures somewhere I can post.

I have been using the insulators for candle holders a long time and can safely say they will break if a candle is allowed to burn down to close to the glass. Even incense will get them hot enough to pop. I use the same method as yesteryearforge to make the section to hold the insulator--usually in the groves in the glass where the wire was wrapped. The stock I use for most of the holders is scrounged from local cemetary dumpsters (easels for holding flowers)

IForgeIron Blueprints Copyright 2002 - 2011 IFORGEIRON, All rights reserved BP0398 Christmas Light Tool by Jerry Carroll If you have a couple of the mini bulbs that need replacing after the lights are up and you don't have enough finger nail left from chewing them while shopping with Momma, here's a helper. Merry Christmas!! Stuff needed to make the light pulling tool. I used a 10" hacksaw blade, any size will do. You can break the ends cold & lightly hammer to make them flat. To get the bends you gotta use the heat (propane torch) or it will break, just red enough to bend and you won't have to harden. After bending the ends to suit you (not over a 1/4 inch long), heat and bend at the middle so the ends are matched up. TURN OFF THE ELECTRIC or unplug the light before removing the bulb. Grasp the bulb at the flange and wiggle easy while pulling. Merry Christmas !! View full article

I have a picture in the gallery of one of my styles of candle holders from insulators. I have some very early ones yet. Lots of abandoned poles in my area.

Quote--"Getting rid of cords doesn't help me when I've got a welding job that I can't get into the garage and need to drag the welder down the driveway though. That was the reason for spending a hundred bucks on that 10ga. cord. If I'm not mistaken welders on an extension cord is not a good idea. I have extensions on my welding leads that store under the heavy boxs my welders sit on. As for the extension cords I loop my 100' cords over my hand as described in someones previous post and the last loop is used to wrap the bundle at the top and pushed thru just above the wrap leaving a short loop at the top to hang the bundle. I have a short length of 2" pvc pipe over the nail used for hanging to prevent damaging the cord by kinking.

$10 for 5 decent tongs?? WOW!

I heat the end of a length of 1/8" rod and burn a shallow cross hatch pattern on most of my rounded handles followed by rubbing a coat of linseed oil on--not much, just enough to coat the burn marks. Most of the handles I make I shape octagon. Thet seem easier to hold for me.

I've been using Future brand acrylic floor finish for several years on inside stuff after preping (scaling--degreasing) with excellent results. Outside I use an automotive brand of acid etching primer with what ever color is wanted/needed.

Tyler, the ferrule was made with a die I made from ball bearing race outter rings--I do something to each of the knives, just my way of doing them I guess. There's a couple of other pictures in the gallery in the members section under the "J"s.

I don't understand the fasination with spike knives but I like the sells. This one took about 2 1/2 hours. I don't have a belt sander--just a buncha files and plenty of practice! The customer wanted the forged look on this blade (upper part).

Here's a 24" dia. x 6" wide diamond wheel I put to use with a shop engineered stand and pedal a couple of years ago. Works great!

The knives look a lot like the ones Billy Merritt of English, Ind. does from motorcycle connecting rods. His work is fantastic. I think some of his stuff is posted here somewhere and if not I have some good pictures taken at Possums hammer-in last year.